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Re: differences in busybox configurations, part1 (longish)



On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 21:06, Neil Williams <codehelp@debian.org> wrote:
...
> I cannot recommend any embedded system should use any version of
> busybox built by Debian for d-i without *also* installing and using
> coreutils, login, passwd, shadow, perl and all the rest. i.e. busybox
> from Debian is only suitable for what Debian normally does with busybox
> - which explicitly does *not* include handling passwords, shadow or
> otherwise.

Please take a look on this thread:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2011/02/msg00471.html

Basically we're going to revamp busybox and busybox-static
configuration (d-i one is not going to be changed too much) and then
we wish to try to be more "friendly" to this kind of use-cases.

Doing the proposed changes I guess we fit this gab.

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