[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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