[BusyBox] RFC: Cutting a BusyBox release today
Pavel Roskin
proski at gnu.org
Wed Jun 21 21:26:28 UTC 2000
Hello, Erik!
> I know for a fact that BusyBox (as currently constituted) will not work with
> the 2.4.x kernels. I know of the following problems:
Well, maybe it should be documented in README:
1) Only Linux (but all architectures) - don't bother compiling under
Cygwin, HP-UX etc
2) Tested mostly with 2.2.x, there are known problems with 2.4.x, don't
know about 2.0.x
Writing README will save time answering e-mails :-)
> Thx. When John Beppu asked about renaming it the more POSIX-ly correct
> dc, I asked him to clean that stuff up. Guess he missed some spots.
> Thanks for checking.
Already done.
> > busybox.pod doesn't even mention e.g. insmod
>
> I'm seriously thinking that we need to switch to a literate programming style
> so that docs are autogenerated form the source. Definately a TODO item for the
> next release.
>
> For this release, I just whipped toget a bit of shell script to figure out what
> is missing from the docs. Turn out 'insmod' and 'telnet' are needed. I will
> get those. Could you document the rm/ln "--" behavior you recently fixed up?
I'll check. Not sure if any changes are needed.
Pavel
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