Hello Ettiene, The reason that the swapon/off applets were removed from busybox is that Bering(-uClibc) is designed as an embedded distro running from RAM, so no swapon/off is needed or used. The necessary scripts are also removed from etc.lrp. Adding them will add size, without being functional for the base image.
Bering-uClibc has indeed more space left on the floppy, but we like to save as much space as possible to have room for future enhancements or changes, like f.e. a kernel-2.6 upgrade. Or to give people the possibility to put as much packages/functionality as possible on just one floppy. So our goal will always be to make things as small as possible (that was the first reason to use uClibc instead of glibc) But why not use the "real" swapon/off binaries from RH? You use the glibc compatibility package, so that should work. If there is lot of demand we can always make a "swap.lrp" package with the programs compiled against uClibc (or you can provide a package yourself, hint ;) Regards, Eric Spakman Member of the Bering-uClibc team > Dear bering uclibc dev team ;-) > > swapon/off disappeard from busybox somewhere between dachstein and bering... > > I used to use an heavily modified bering release ( glibc2.2,...) ( cdrom > boot, openvpn, upnp,...) > I used the squid binary from a redhat 7.3 distro > > I had to put an old version of busybox ( dachstein ) plus a couple of links > into local.lrp in order to be able to activate swap > I think that those applets have been removed from Bering due to the lack of > space on the standard floppy > > Now that > - bering uclibc has more space left on the floppy, > - some squid related work has started in buildtool > > > could it be possible to add back those 2 applets to busybox ??? > > ( my old busybox from dachstein won't work on uclibc) > > > Many thanks for your hard work !! > Kind regards > Etienne Charlier > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g > Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. > Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=3149&alloc_id=8166&op=click > > _______________________________________________ > leaf-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=3149&alloc_id=8166&op=click _______________________________________________ leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
