On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 10:36:49PM +1300, Mark van Walraven wrote:
> 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"
hmm maybe it was something else.. getting rid of echo -n i think.
> > > 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 )".
head is required for powerpc.
> > 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
thats still a very fragile and gross kludge, depending on output like
this not to change is not smart.
> > > BTW: does "ls --block-size=1 -s" look broken to you?
> >
> > busybox ls doesn't know what that is.
>
> Sorry, meant fileutils' ls. Bug?
the ls you have available on boot-floppies is busybox, not fileutils.
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Ethan Benson
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