Re: [d-i] today's treecompare

[Mark van Walraven <markv@wave.co.nz>]

On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 11:20:18PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 06:34:12PM +1300, Mark van Walraven wrote:
> > Substitute "> FILE" for "touch FILE".
> 
> that should already be done in the last patch or two that were NMUed,

Cool.

> but i could have missed one.

debootstrap-0.1.15.5/potato:64:        touch "$TARGET/var/lib/dpkg/info/${pkg}.list"
debootstrap-0.1.15.5/slink:56:        touch "$TARGET/var/lib/dpkg/info/${pkg}.list"
debootstrap-0.1.15.5/woody:87:        touch "$TARGET/etc/ld.so.conf"
debootstrap-0.1.15.5/woody:108:        touch "$TARGET/var/lib/dpkg/info/${pkg}.list"
debootstrap-0.1.15.5/woody:158:        touch "$TARGET/etc/exim/exim.conf"

> > Substitute "sed -e q" for "head -n 1".
> 
> sed is used more often then this ...

Joey's done away with head.  Therefore I suggested using sed instead.

Better yet, replace "head -n 1" with "(read A ; echo $A )".

> busybox dd does not produce output like GNU dd.

Works for me:

    $ ln /bin/busybox dd
    $ ./dd if=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.19 of=/dev/null bs=1                      
    457707+0 records in
    457707+0 records out

> > BTW: does "ls --block-size=1 -s" look broken to you?
> 
> busybox ls doesn't know what that is.

Sorry, meant fileutils' ls.  Bug?

Mark.