[BusyBox] ipkg as busybox applet

[Waldemar Brodkorb]

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.

>  Of course somebody here 
> could do the first pass incorporation/integration to help make the 
> sale.  Any takers?

May be I will provide a patch after cleanup. After what the hack :}

bye
    Waldemar

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