`busyboxvi` is not working like before

Isaac Dunham ibid.ag at gmail.com
Thu Oct 23 23:57:38 UTC 2014


On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 07:45:14PM +0100, Steven Honeyman wrote:
> On 19 October 2014 14:22, walter harms <wharms at bfs.de> wrote:
> > I would vote for a busybox-next (or what you call it).
> > A branch that easly fold back into the main but contains all
> > the recent patches.
> > That givce a clear space for experiements and makes it possible for
> > denis to see the reqiered changes.
> 
> Well, I am a newbie to git, but I'll give it a go seeing as nobody else has:
> 
> https://github.com/stevenhoneyman/busybox
> 
> I created a branch "busybox-next" and have made a start on applying
> patches from here (and some from OpenWRT).
> Either it will stay ahead or inline with upstream, or I'll remove it.
> I have no intention to create a fork; all upstream changes will be
> merged.
> 
> ...if I can figure out how to use git properly :)
> 
> Pull requests are welcome for any patches I might have missed.

I've got a branch I use for local "enhancements", not all of which I'm
inclined to upstream. (It includes some nasty hacks I used to get stuff
building in the past, most of which may be unneeded now.)

This is branch "enh" from
https://github.com/idunham/busybox

The parts you might find interesting are:
miscutils/nroff.c - a slightly buggy/WIP nroff that I dug up from the list
(This needs man to be patched.)
miscutils/mixer.c - mixer applet from bifferos, with a couple small updates
util-linux/{fbvnc.c,vnc.h} - a framebuffer VNC client someone ported years ago
util-linux/guess_fs.c - originally a standalone tool from jamesbond on the
 Puppy Linux forums, I only integrated it into busybox; it shows the
 filesystem type. 
 Equivalent to Puppy guess_fstype/Toybox fstype.

Somewhere out there, there's "button.c" and "wavplay.c" applets from
bifferos. I've lost track of them, though (the old links seem to be 
dead now).

Thanks,
Isaac Dunham



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