[BusyBox] ipkg as busybox applet

Steven Scholz steven.scholz at imc-berlin.de
Mon Jul 18 00:57:56 MDT 2005


Waldemar Brodkorb wrote:

> Hi,
> Dick Hollenbeck wrote,
> 
> 
>>This would be a nice addition to busybox.  I just now looked at the CVS 
>>where evidently the source code is kept.  It looks like there is a copy 
>>of the 0.6 busybox library in that ipkg module.  I did not dig too deep 
>>but this could mean that the code is already largely integrated with the 
>>bb library functions and developing a patch could be fairly easy.
> 
> 
> Unfortunately not very largely, but in a quick preview hack, it
> would save 28 kb on our squashfs lzma root filesystem, when
> integrated into busybox as an applet.
>  
> 
>>And, given that it is already busybox dependent, perhaps the original 
>>author(s)/owner(s) might simply want to be responsible for maintaining 
>>it within the busybox code base as its primary home.
>>
>>Anybody want to suggest this to the owner? 
> 
> 
> I do not find any mailinglist on the handheld.org site. Should I
> contact some of the people in the ChangeLog? I'll try their IRC
> channel.

Pierluigi.Frullani at frumar.it is the current maintainer.

--
Steven


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