On 9/7/26 12:36, Marco d'Itri wrote:
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This is my use case:
deboostrap ... /mnt/
cd /
busybox ash
mkdir OLD
mv * OLD/
mv OLD/mnt/* .
Ah, so you do an in-place live system replace. That's a fun stuff.
But it's definitely "not supported" by debian :) That to say: I
don't consider this to be a valid use case - enough to keep the
package.
I remember using busybox-static to perform /usr-merge manually -
dunno why already but somehow usr-merge package was doing something
wrongly, I think... ah, it was it's copying of / stuff to /usr,
instead of moving it. So I used busybox-static to do a rename
instead of copy+remove.
So it does have its uses. But these are very niche. Even for my
use case, I downloaded busybox-static.deb, extracted it to /tmp/bb,
and used it directly from /var/tmp/bb/bin/busybox, without
installing it.
Thanks,
/mjt
