On Jan 24, 2012 4:40 PM, "András Csányi" <sayusi.a...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
> I would like to ask what should I do in this case? I would like to
> make a new kernel using genkernel but there is no 1.8.1 version of
> busybox and it's not available in portage. To be honest I don't want
> to do a new kernel by hand despite the fact it would be a few
> commands.
>
> Thanks for any help in advance!
>
> sa-home Downloads # genkernel --menuconfig --no-mrproper --no-clean all
> * Gentoo Linux Genkernel; Version 3.4.23.1
> * Running with options: --menuconfig --no-mrproper --no-clean all
>
> Could not find source tarball
> /var/cache/genkernel/src/busybox-1.18.1.tar.bz2. Please refetch.
>
> sa-home Downloads # eix -s busybox
> [I] sys-apps/busybox
> Available versions: 1.17.4!t (~)1.18.4!t (~)1.18.5!t 1.19.0!t
> (~)1.19.2!t (~)1.19.2-r1!t (~)1.19.3!t 1.19.3-r1!t {debug elibc_glibc
> ipv6 make-symlinks mdev nfs -pam savedconfig selinux static}
> Installed versions: 1.19.3-r1!t(01:29:36 PM
> 01/16/2012)(elibc_glibc ipv6 pam -make-symlinks -mdev -savedconfig
> -selinux -static)
> Homepage: http://www.busybox.net/
> Description: Utilities for rescue and embedded systems
>
> sa-home Downloads #
Well, there's a forum thread with a similar problem:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-699180-start-0.html
Alternatively, compile busybox with USE=static, package it using quickpkg,
and tell genkernel to use that binary package using
--busybox-bin=/path/to/busybox-binary.tar.bz2
Rgds,
