Bug#316847: busybox-cvs: Please enable more applets

[Piotr Roszatycki-3]

Package: busybox-cvs
Version: 20040623-1
Severity: wishlist

Please, enable more applets that are available in *.udeb flavour. I don't
understand why is disabled i.e. ash, dd, etc.. It would be very useful
for initrd recovery tool set.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-1-686
Locale: LANG=pl_PL, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL (charmap=ISO-8859-2)

Versions of packages busybox-cvs depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an

busybox-cvs recommends no packages.

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[Joey Hess]

Piotr Roszatycki wrote:
> Please, enable more applets that are available in *.udeb flavour. I don't
> understand why is disabled i.e. ash, dd, etc.. It would be very useful
> for initrd recovery tool set.

Because these utilities need to fit on floppies and other small media.

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[Piotr Roszatycki]

On Monday 04 of July 2005 13:57, you wrote:
> Piotr Roszatycki wrote:
> > Please, enable more applets that are available in *.udeb flavour. I don't
> > understand why is disabled i.e. ash, dd, etc.. It would be very useful
> > for initrd recovery tool set.
>
> Because these utilities need to fit on floppies and other small media.

And then is available *.udeb version which should be smaller than bigger
*.deb. Maybe consider busybox-full flavour if the standard busybox (not
udeb!) can't be larger.

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