[gentoo-user] emerge busybox Why?

2005-06-04 Thread Bill Roberts
My usual "emerge -uavDt world" this morning wanted to emerge busybox. It doesn't show as a dependency for anything, and I've never emerged it for anything. Any idea why?? Bill Roberts pgp1U8FSsV8oZ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge busybox Why?

2005-06-04 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Saturday 04 June 2005 23:02, Bill Roberts wrote: > My usual "emerge -uavDt world" this morning wanted to emerge busybox. > > It doesn't show as a dependency for anything, and I've never emerged > it for anything. > > Any idea why?? I believe it's been added to system in place of sash. It's simi

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge busybox Why?

2005-06-04 Thread Rumen Yotov
Jason Stubbs wrote: >On Saturday 04 June 2005 23:02, Bill Roberts wrote: > > >>My usual "emerge -uavDt world" this morning wanted to emerge busybox. >> >>It doesn't show as a dependency for anything, and I've never emerged >>it for anything. >> >>Any idea why?? >> >> > >I believe it's been a

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge busybox Why?

2005-06-04 Thread Sean Crandall
With apologies for my ignorance, what did sash used to do? My understanding is that busybox is a very small embedded linux for SBCs and controllers and such (I noticed busybox yesterday too, and it made me curious as I didn't remember emerging it). On 6/4/05, Rumen Yotov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge busybox Why?

2005-06-04 Thread Rumen Yotov
Sean Crandall wrote: Hi, Can't give much info but think "sash=stand-alone shell", so as the name implies it's mainly for rescue, don't depend on other progs/libs. Could boot/work w/o other parts of a system. HTH. Rumen >With apologies for my ignorance, what did sash used to do? My >understanding

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge busybox Why?

2005-06-04 Thread Tom Wesley
On Sat, 2005-06-04 at 23:12 +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: > On Saturday 04 June 2005 23:02, Bill Roberts wrote: > > My usual "emerge -uavDt world" this morning wanted to emerge busybox. > > > > It doesn't show as a dependency for anything, and I've never emerged > > it for anything. > > > > Any idea w

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge busybox Why?

2005-06-04 Thread Alastair Murray
Tom Wesley wrote: > > Of course if you're particularly adept at breaking your system, busybox > may not work unless it is statically linked. > > # echo sys-apps/busybox static >> /etc/portage/package.use > > Before you emerge it. > If busybox is being used as a rescue shell shouldn't it build