>>>>> "Will" == Will Newton <[email protected]> writes:
Hi, Will> I'm not sure that there's quite the same need for flag versions. Will> Upgrading a kernel can cause lots of subtle changes in how the Will> system behaves and incur a lot of effort in updating out of tree Will> drivers, whereas swapping a new BusyBox in has been very painless Will> in our experience. I don't recall whether we have ever had any Will> issue other than perhaps having to update the config file we use. Indeed. HW specific stuff like the kernel and bootloader can be painful, but higher level stuff usually aren't. Will> To be honest I've experienced much larger problems with toolchain and Will> build system upgrades rather than uClibc and BusyBox version bumps. Which makes sense as you then normally upgrade the version of several packages at once, so the amount of potential problems get multiplied. -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
