On Wed Sep 26, 2001 at 03:47:01PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 05:38:16PM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote:
> > I missed the explanation. If there is something specific that
> > busybox ash does wrong that prevents its use on powerpcs, I'd
> > very much like to know so I can f
On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 05:38:16PM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote:
> On Wed Sep 26, 2001 at 03:28:51PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 07:05:17AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > > Erik Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > > to have on the boot floppies) brings it to 59k
On Wed Sep 26, 2001 at 03:28:51PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 07:05:17AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > Erik Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > to have on the boot floppies) brings it to 59k. It looks like the debian ash
> > > binary now in the boot floppies wei
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 07:05:17AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Erik Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > to have on the boot floppies) brings it to 59k. It looks like the debian ash
> > binary now in the boot floppies weighs in at 81k (and lacks both command line
> > editing and tab completi
Erik Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> to have on the boot floppies) brings it to 59k. It looks like the debian ash
> binary now in the boot floppies weighs in at 81k (and lacks both command line
> editing and tab completion).
The udeb is only 72k though.
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On Tue Sep 25, 2001 at 08:44:34PM -0700, David Kimdon wrote:
> I tried it out, we need to fix some stuff, but it is really nice to
> have command line editing and tab completion :-)
>
> I got up to install kernel and drivers, then failure.
>
> 1. no test
> 26 03:33:07 (none) user.info dbootstrap
I tried it out, we need to fix some stuff, but it is really nice to
have command line editing and tab completion :-)
I got up to install kernel and drivers, then failure.
1. no test
26 03:33:07 (none) user.info dbootstrap[53]: [: No such file or directory
Is this suppose to be provided by ash, o
On Tue Sep 25, 2001 at 03:13:17PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > Erik, if you put a version together with all this removed, I can run
> > an install and verify that things still work.
>
> Yes, lets test with the ifconfig, route, and ash from busybox. Then
> we should have plenty of space for al
On Tue Sep 25, 2001 at 03:03:48PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 12:04:28PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
>
> > Also, what about busybox ash? Is that mature enough to use instead of
> > the proper ash package? Or did it have some problems?
>
> it ignores posix.
posix also
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 05:02:54PM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote:
> On Tue Sep 25, 2001 at 10:43:24PM +0100, Richard Hirst wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 11:09:02AM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote:
> > > Right. I can't think of a good reason for ar to be included. echo dups a
> >
> > I think deboot
Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 05:02:54PM -0600 wrote:
> On Tue Sep 25, 2001 at 10:43:24PM +0100, Richard Hirst wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 11:09:02AM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote:
> > > Right. I can't think of a good reason for ar to be included. echo dups a
> >
> > I think debootstrap uses ar when
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 12:04:28PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> Also, what about busybox ash? Is that mature enough to use instead of
> the proper ash package? Or did it have some problems?
it ignores posix.
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On Tue Sep 25, 2001 at 11:37:55PM +0200, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote:
> Most of the time you can rewrite the code to use parameter
> substitution or the arithmetic builtins, so this is not a serious
> objection, just a FYI.
right. That was what I meant. Worst cast, you can pipe things
through se
On Tue Sep 25, 2001 at 10:43:24PM +0100, Richard Hirst wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 11:09:02AM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote:
> > Right. I can't think of a good reason for ar to be included. echo dups a
>
> I think debootstrap uses ar when it is initially unpacking dpkg.
Can anyone verify thi
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 11:09:02AM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote:
> Right. I can't think of a good reason for ar to be included. echo dups a
I think debootstrap uses ar when it is initially unpacking dpkg.
Richard
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Erik Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> expr can be replaced with posix shell expressions.
This is not true in general, as there is no support for regular
expressions in POSIX sh.
$ expr "abcdef" : '[ab]*\(.\).*'
c
Most of the time you can rewrite the code to use parameter
substitution
On Tue Sep 25, 2001 at 10:57:51AM -0700, David Kimdon wrote:
> At the moment 'Report a Problem' menu choice uses gzip, but the
> dependancy could be removed.
That would be good
> If expr is really duplicated in the shell then we can remove it, I
> know it is used by dhcp-client.
expr can be rep
Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 11:09:02AM -0600 wrote:
> On Tue Sep 25, 2001 at 12:04:28PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > Erik Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > I suspect that all of the following could probably be eliminated: ar, date,
> > > echo, env, expr, gzip, halt, lsmod, poweroff, wc, which
On Tue Sep 25, 2001 at 12:04:28PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> Erik Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I suspect that all of the following could probably be eliminated: ar, date,
> > echo, env, expr, gzip, halt, lsmod, poweroff, wc, which, whoami.
> >
> > A quick check shows that disablin
On Tue Sep 25, 2001 at 12:11:29AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> busybox in potato was much smaller then busybox in woody, if you don't
> wnat to remove all this bloat just make a bloody -bf package.
This is not a fair comparison. Busybox in potato also didn't provide ar,
basename, cut, dirname, e
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 02:25:19AM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote:
> On Tue Sep 25, 2001 at 12:11:29AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> >
> > busybox in potato was much smaller then busybox in woody, if you don't
> > wnat to remove all this bloat just make a bloody -bf package.
> >
> > NMU should be don
On Tue Sep 25, 2001 at 12:11:29AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
>
> busybox in potato was much smaller then busybox in woody, if you don't
> wnat to remove all this bloat just make a bloody -bf package.
>
> NMU should be done ASAP.
You don't need to NMU is, I'm perfectly able to do it.
Could you a
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 06:45:37PM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote:
> On Mon Sep 24, 2001 at 04:09:35PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > reopen 113503
> > thanks
> >
> > busybox is still too bloated, 12k can be saved on powerpc by applying
> > the rest of my patch, a new patch is enclosed here:
>
> Too
On Mon Sep 24, 2001 at 04:09:35PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> reopen 113503
> thanks
>
> busybox is still too bloated, 12k can be saved on powerpc by applying
> the rest of my patch, a new patch is enclosed here:
Too bloated for the powerpc boot floppies perhaps, but not for x86, arm, mips,
alp
reopen 112503
thanks
busybox is still too bloated, 12k can be saved on powerpc by applying
the rest of my patch, a new patch is enclosed here:
--- Config.h-deb.orig Mon Sep 24 16:04:52 2001
+++ Config.h-debSat Sep 1 23:51:39 2001
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
//#define BB_ADJTIMEX
#define BB_AR
reopen 113503
thanks
busybox is still too bloated, 12k can be saved on powerpc by applying
the rest of my patch, a new patch is enclosed here:
--- Config.h-deb.orig Mon Sep 24 16:04:52 2001
+++ Config.h-debSat Sep 1 23:51:39 2001
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
//#define BB_ADJTIMEX
#define BB_AR
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