[Buildroot] adding packages to buildroot

Peter Korsgaard jacmet at uclibc.org
Sat Mar 29 15:25:54 UTC 2008


>>>>> "Nigel" == Nigel Kukard <nkukard at lbsd.net> writes:

 Nigel> Anybody got anything against me adding and maintaining the following
 Nigel> packages...

 Nigel> rpm5 - 4.4.9 & 5.0.x (+- 9 patches to support uclibc)
 Nigel> depends: libneon
 Nigel> depends: libbeecrypt

 Nigel> busybox's rpm is great, but lacks functionality which one can use for
 Nigel> emergency recovery.

 Nigel> bootutils - implements a switchroot alternative which supports automatic
 Nigel> discovery of root device/filesystem and emergency shell execution if
 Nigel> root device cannot be found or mounted. initramfs+bootutils+busybox
 Nigel> +dropbear  <= perfect rescue initramfs/initrd.

No, sounds fine - The ipkg package manager also recently got added.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard



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