Re: Installer online help

["Chris Tillman" <tillman@azstarnet.com>]

> 
> FWIW busybox does have better help if you turn it on :
> bb with very little help:
> -rwxr-xr-x root/root    180316 2001-06-10 14:22:28 ./bin/busybox
>
> bb with better help:
> -rwxr-xr-x root/root    195804 2001-06-10 14:29:32 ./bin/busybox
>
> That is more space than what you are proposing, but it does involve a bit of
> duplication of effort and maintenance.  I don't feel strongly either way.

New users feel completely lost; even if the information is right there, they
don't know how to get at it. "Which command do I try first? They all look
equivalently evil and potentially dangerous." If a script was used to
extract the info out of <cmd> --help for all these commands into one file
during the build, and then the result concatenated to a static file intro,
that might work. Then if you turn off the --help for busybox, after
extracting the info but before building, there's no duplication of effort or
space.

I've got a feeling that's a trivial script for you guys, but I wouldn't know
where to start. Something with a sed and a couple of greps thrown in.

BTW, I think some options advertised as being functional in bb --help are
not really; if we go down that route I could help clean that up.

>> chroot make the root directory something other than / on
>>  the file system; "chroot <root-now> <new-root>"
> I don't think that's right:
> meow:bin$ chroot --help
> Usage: chroot NEWROOT [COMMAND...]
>

I must have gotten that info from another distribution #-/

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Chris Tillman
tillman@azstarnet.com