On Sun Sep 02, 2001 at 04:53:08AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 06:37:20AM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote: > > > > If we use busybox dpkg-deb instead of ar and tar it will reduce busybox by > > about 6.5kB (by my calculations), one of the reasons being that most of > > the busybox unarchiving applets have been reorganised, however tar hasnt > > been, currently busybox dpkg-deb uses seperate untar'ing code to the tar > > applet. I have a patch somewhere to integrate tar with the common code the > > unarchiving applets use, but it had still needed further testing and i got > > distracted and havent looked at it further. > > well we really need to leave tar there since d[e]bootstrap needs it to > extract basedebs.tgz files, as well as `Report a problem' manual user > hackery, etc etc. > > removing ar along i imagine would not gain very much, but then again > we need every byte we can get. For the current set of busybox applets, I've made a best guess as to what is likely to be needed. If somone can find some applets that are unused, I'm more then happy to axe them. > that is more risky, debootstrap and the powerpc bootloader > installer/configurator are writtin in /bin/sh, so the busybox version > MUST be at least as good as real ash. I consider it a full replacement, and with have now had several releases with the busybox ash shell. There are no known bugs... -Erik -- Erik B. Andersen email: andersee@debian.org, andersen@lineo.com --This message was written using 73% post-consumer electrons--
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