Thanks for your detailed explain. It's nice to hear the news about the busybox upgrade in Fremantle. Although, normal user might not interested in cmdline, but it did for developers:) lol
> -----Original Message----- > From: Eero Tamminen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 5:30 PM > To: Wei Zhou > Cc: ext Deepak Kr. Sharma, Noida; maemo-developers@maemo.org > Subject: Re: Busybox version > > Hi, > > ext Wei Zhou wrote: > > Little out of topic, busybox in diablo image is 1.6.1, > while the latest > > one is 1.11.x, does Nokia plan to upgrade this? AYK, there > are many bugs > > on Bugzilla shows the old busybox did not support some > features (like, > > `ldd', `sort -k', etc), but the latest one does. > > If you need these urgently, instead of "ldd", you can use: > /lib/ld-2.5.so --list /path-to/dynamic-elf-binary > > (Ldd script is just convenience wrapper around ld, it > converts relative > paths to absolute and gives the binaries & libs to the dynamic linker > one at the time.) > > And instead of "sort -k", you might try re-arranging the fields first > with trivial awk one-liner. > > > > compare with the size > > > > busybox 1.6.1, 223.4k > > busybox 1.11.x, 763.4k > > I think the features and especially the size depends more > from features > enabled in busybox configuration that the busybox version. (bugs in > these features, these are more specific to busybox version. :-)) > Agree, the features supprted should have a careful consideration. > > > I think it's not a big problem in N810 about the size(256M/8G). > > The 256MB internal flash (where all the packages will be installed) is > half full and with JFFS2 file system there should be some free space > for it to work well (to more full it is, the more it slows down and > more RAM it uses). > Yuh, is that possible to add an option for `Advanced user' and `Normal user', like the R&D mode, maybe some advanced features/utils can be put under the external storage, and mount for using, Relax, ^^ > Basically features that aren't needed by normal users (who don't use > command line) nor needed by the installed packages, are left out of > Busybox. > > > Updating to new Busybox version "always" breaks things that > need then to > be fixed, so it's not going to be updated for maemo 4.x (Chinook / > Diablo). It will be updated in the next major release, Fremantle. > > > - Eero > _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
