[PATCH] busybox binary name

[Stuart Longland]

On 03/02/11 16:33, Tobias Poschwatta wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 02:19:02AM +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
>> On Tuesday 01 March 2011 22:08, Tobias Poschwatta wrote:
>>> The attached patch allows to change the name of the main busybox binary
>>> to something other than "busybox". This makes it easy to have two or
>>> more busybox binaries (different versions, different feature sets, etc.)
>>> installed in the same filesystem.
>>
>> It is already possible by using a suffix:
>>
>> # cp busybox busybox2
> 
> Magic!
> 
> Oh, wait. This doesn't make "make install" create symlinks to busybox2,
> does it?

They'll probably point to the wrong thing; but you at least know what
the symlinks will be called, so you can use something like:

	find /path -type l | while read l; do
		rm -f $l && ln -s /path/to/busybox2 $l
	done
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