Re: [d-i] today's treecompare

2001-10-22 Thread Erik Andersen
On Tue Oct 23, 2001 at 02:17:32PM +1300, Mark van Walraven wrote: > Fine for C or Perl, but not for a sh script like debootstrap. > cool. I hadn't realized this was debootstrap. I keep getting "debootstrap" and "dbootstrap" mixed up. Can't imagine why... :) -Erik -- Erik B. Andersen

Re: [d-i] today's treecompare

2001-10-22 Thread Mark van Walraven
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 06:20:13PM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote: > I did indeed re-enable wc. But seriously though, if you know > the file's name, couldn't you just stat(2)? Something like: > > struct stat statbuf; > ... > stat(filename, &statbuf); > filesize = statbuf.st_size;

Re: [d-i] today's treecompare

2001-10-22 Thread Erik Andersen
On Tue Oct 23, 2001 at 12:56:15PM +1300, Mark van Walraven wrote: > On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 04:23:05AM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote: > > Umm. What possible good would it do to parse dd output? Check the > > return code. or stat the output file if you are paranoid. > > It was a way to determine f

Re: [d-i] today's treecompare

2001-10-22 Thread Mark van Walraven
On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 04:23:05AM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote: > Umm. What possible good would it do to parse dd output? Check the > return code. or stat the output file if you are paranoid. It was a way to determine file size in the absence of wc. But if you've enabled wc in b-f busybox, the

Re: [d-i] today's treecompare

2001-10-22 Thread Matt Kraai
Responding to the message of <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> from Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 01:45:39AM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote: > > On Fri Oct 19, 2001 at 11:20:18PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > >=20 > > > busybox dd does not produce output like GNU dd. > >=20 > > So you

Re: [d-i] today's treecompare

2001-10-20 Thread Joey Hess
Erik Andersen wrote: > busybox has a version of ash in it now. We have made a number of changes > and add features like full command line editing, and tab completion, while > still making it a fair bit smaller then the current ash package. There may > be a few more things needed, but I'm already

Re: [d-i] today's treecompare

2001-10-20 Thread Erik Andersen
On Sat Oct 20, 2001 at 01:40:42PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > Have you guys thought about moving to busybox /bin/sh rather than ash? > > Or do you do that already? Or something else? > > It wasn't quite a posix shell last time I checked. That was a while ago > though. bus

Re: [d-i] today's treecompare

2001-10-20 Thread Joey Hess
Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Have you guys thought about moving to busybox /bin/sh rather than ash? > Or do you do that already? Or something else? It wasn't quite a posix shell last time I checked. That was a while ago though. -- see shy jo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Re: [d-i] today's treecompare

2001-10-20 Thread Joey Hess
Anthony Towns wrote: > On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 06:46:32PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > Removed stuff: > > /bin/touch > > /usr/bin/head > > /usr/bin/sort > > /usr/bin/wc > > ...are all used by debootstrap. Is there a full list somewhere? -- see shy jo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: [d-i] today's treecompare

2001-10-20 Thread Erik Andersen
On Sat Oct 20, 2001 at 01:03:12AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 01:45:39AM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote: > > On Fri Oct 19, 2001 at 11:20:18PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > > > > busybox dd does not produce output like GNU dd. > > > > So you have specifics? I've not seen

Re: [d-i] today's treecompare

2001-10-20 Thread Mark van Walraven
On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 01:41:25AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > > 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. Forge

Re: [d-i] today's treecompare

2001-10-20 Thread Mark van Walraven
On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 01:03:12AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > but parsing some basically informative verbosity output from a utility > is a damned fragile kludge of a way to do something, what if the > format of this output changes in the future? Agree with the sentiment, but changing the outpu

Re: [d-i] today's treecompare

2001-10-20 Thread Ethan Benson
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 pat

Re: [d-i] today's treecompare

2001-10-20 Thread Mark van Walraven
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. debootstra

Re: [d-i] today's treecompare

2001-10-20 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 01:45:39AM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote: > On Fri Oct 19, 2001 at 11:20:18PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > > busybox dd does not produce output like GNU dd. > > So you have specifics? I've not seen a bug report from you. well it at least didn't used to display any outp

Re: [d-i] today's treecompare

2001-10-20 Thread Erik Andersen
On Fri Oct 19, 2001 at 11:20:18PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > busybox dd does not produce output like GNU dd. So you have specifics? I've not seen a bug report from you. -Erik -- Erik B. Andersen http://codepoet-consulting.com/ --This message was written using 73% post-consume

Re: [d-i] today's treecompare

2001-10-19 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 06:34:12PM +1300, Mark van Walraven wrote: > On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 12:54:23PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 06:46:32PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > > Removed stuff: > > > /bin/touch > > > /usr/bin/head > > > /usr/bin/sort > > > /usr/bin/wc

Re: [d-i] today's treecompare

2001-10-19 Thread Mark van Walraven
On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 12:54:23PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 06:46:32PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > Removed stuff: > > /bin/touch > > /usr/bin/head > > /usr/bin/sort > > /usr/bin/wc > > ...are all used by debootstrap. Substitute "> FILE" for "touch FIL

Re: [d-i] today's treecompare

2001-10-19 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 06:46:32PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Removed stuff: > /bin/touch > /usr/bin/head > /usr/bin/sort > /usr/bin/wc ...are all used by debootstrap. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I don't speak for any

Re: [d-i] today's treecompare

2001-10-19 Thread Erik Andersen
On Fri Oct 19, 2001 at 08:17:07PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Joey Hess wrote: > > New busybox; I think this is about all we can squeeze out of it (if it's > > not going to far even..). Still 193k to go (compressed) before it'll fit > > on a floppy again. > > Make that 143k -- I was missing a -pic

Re: [d-i] today's treecompare

2001-10-19 Thread Joey Hess
Joey Hess wrote: > New busybox; I think this is about all we can squeeze out of it (if it's > not going to far even..). Still 193k to go (compressed) before it'll fit > on a floppy again. Make that 143k -- I was missing a -pic library. By my calculations, once the kernel modules get unbloated, we

[d-i] today's treecompare

2001-10-19 Thread Joey Hess
New busybox; I think this is about all we can squeeze out of it (if it's not going to far even..). Still 193k to go (compressed) before it'll fit on a floppy again. Size: removed 69k Dir count: unchanged File count: removed 34 New stuff (biggest first): Removed stuff: