Re: differences in busybox configurations, part1 (longish)

2011-02-16 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 21:15:57 + Otavio Salvador wrote: > On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 21:06, Neil Williams > 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,

Re: differences in busybox configurations, part1 (longish)

2011-02-16 Thread Otavio Salvador
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 21:06, Neil Williams 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 fo

Re: differences in busybox configurations, part1 (longish)

2011-02-16 Thread Otavio Salvador
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 20:44, Hector Oron wrote: ... > Crush development has been postponed until multiarch is ready but some > of the bits for the proof of concept can be found at emdebian svn [0]. ... What should we do? Just "sync" static with deb and later work on that? Seems like a more logi

Re: differences in busybox configurations, part1 (longish)

2011-02-16 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 20:55:13 + Otavio Salvador wrote: > On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 20:44, Hector Oron > wrote: ... > > Crush development has been postponed until multiarch is ready but > > some of the bits for the proof of concept can be found at emdebian > > svn [0]. > ... > > What should we

Re: differences in busybox configurations, part1 (longish)

2011-02-16 Thread Hector Oron
Hello Ferenc, 2011/2/15 Ferenc Wagner : > Otavio Salvador writes: > >> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 22:06, Michael Tokarev wrote: >> >>> FEATURE_SHADOWPASSWDS >>> support for getspent() and friends. >>> Current: deb n  static y  udeb n >>> Proposed action: enable for deb >>> Discussion: It is quite u

Re: differences in busybox configurations, part1 (longish)

2011-02-14 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Michael Tokarev (m...@tls.msk.ru): > Part one of the discussion series. Config options which > are enabled in udeb and static builds but not enabled > in regular build. I won't comment myself (as said already, this is out of my field of expertise), but I'd suggest to also wait for Joey H

Re: differences in busybox configurations, part1 (longish)

2011-02-14 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Otavio Salvador writes: > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 22:06, Michael Tokarev wrote: > >> FEATURE_SHADOWPASSWDS >> support for getspent() and friends. >> Current: deb n  static y  udeb n >> Proposed action: enable for deb >> Discussion: It is quite unexpected that busybox can't >> use shadow password

Re: differences in busybox configurations, part1 (longish)

2011-02-14 Thread Otavio Salvador
First I'd like to thank you for doing that but I'd also want to make clear that we need to be conservative on udeb flavour since the installer heavily depends on it. More bellow... On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 22:06, Michael Tokarev wrote: ... > Just for the record, non-static allyesconfig for i386 >

Re: differences in busybox configurations, part1 (longish)

2011-02-14 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 01:06:46AM +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote: > Part one of the discussion series. Config options which > are enabled in udeb and static builds but not enabled > in regular build. I don't disagree with anything you've mentioned. If all of the changes you recommend were integra

differences in busybox configurations, part1 (longish)

2011-02-14 Thread Michael Tokarev
Part one of the discussion series. Config options which are enabled in udeb and static builds but not enabled in regular build. I assume two things: 1) regular build should include at least all options (with very few exceptions, see below) as udeb and static builds does. 2) generally, we want t