[Sisuite-devel] request: new busybox in boot-i386-standard

[Ramon Bastiaans]

Hello,

Would it be possible to incorporate the latest busybox version into
SystemImager's boot-i386-standard package?

The latest busybox feature's a whole lot more of supported commands, in
particular I'm interested in fsck etc.

This would allow for more extensive troubleshooting after the failed
install of a machine.

Kind regards,
- Ramon.
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ing. R. Bastiaans

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[Erich Focht]

Funny, yesterday I built the latest busybox and wondered whether we should
update it. I can take care of this. Is there agreement on including "fsck"?
BTW: for which filesystems? Not sure you have much of a choice in busybox...
Any other functions we need for scripting the installation?

Regards,
Erich

Post by Ramon Bastiaans
Hello,
Would it be possible to incorporate the latest busybox version into
SystemImager's boot-i386-standard package?
The latest busybox feature's a whole lot more of supported commands, in
particular I'm interested in fsck etc.
This would allow for more extensive troubleshooting after the failed
install of a machine.
Kind regards,
- Ramon.

[Ramon Bastiaans]

I think you're right and there's not much choice anyway.

BusyBox features a 'e2fsck' with journaling support so that supports
ext2/ext3 and that would be enough for me at least. ;)

Although I can imagine there are a lot of other commands available in
BusyBox, that could be useful too and are not available at this time in
boot-i386-standard.

Cheers,
- Ramon.

Post by Erich Focht
Funny, yesterday I built the latest busybox and wondered whether we should
update it. I can take care of this. Is there agreement on including "fsck"?
BTW: for which filesystems? Not sure you have much of a choice in busybox...
Any other functions we need for scripting the installation?
Regards,
Erich

Post by Ramon Bastiaans
Hello,
Would it be possible to incorporate the latest busybox version into
SystemImager's boot-i386-standard package?
The latest busybox feature's a whole lot more of supported commands, in
particular I'm interested in fsck etc.
This would allow for more extensive troubleshooting after the failed
install of a machine.
Kind regards,
- Ramon.

--
ing. R. Bastiaans

Systems Programmer / High Performance Computing & Visualisation /
SARA Computing and Networking Services
Kruislaan 415 PO Box 194613
1098 SJ Amsterdam 1090 GP Amsterdam
---
There are really only three types of people:

Those who make things happen, those who watch things happen
and those who say, "What happened?"

[Andrea Righi]

Post by Erich Focht
Funny, yesterday I built the latest busybox and wondered whether we should
update it. I can take care of this. Is there agreement on including "fsck"?
BTW: for which filesystems? Not sure you have much of a choice in busybox...
Any other functions we need for scripting the installation?

Anyway... if you agree I would like to tag 3.9.0 (-unstable) before,
where before means very soon (maybe tomorrow)...

-Andrea

[Bernard Li]

Guys:

If you decide to incorporate the latest busybox, please remember to
turn on the CONFIG_FEATURE_MODPROBE_FANCY_ALIAS and remove Andrea's
patch for taking care of modprobing modules with "-" and "_". For
more information, please see this thread:

http://www.mail-archive.com/sisuite-***@lists.sourceforge.net/msg02655.html

Andrea, so are you suggesting that the new busybox goes into trunk
after you tag unstable 3.9.x?

Thanks!

Bernard

Post by Andrea Righi

Post by Erich Focht
Funny, yesterday I built the latest busybox and wondered whether we should
update it. I can take care of this. Is there agreement on including "fsck"?
BTW: for which filesystems? Not sure you have much of a choice in busybox...
Any other functions we need for scripting the installation?

Anyway... if you agree I would like to tag 3.9.0 (-unstable) before,
where before means very soon (maybe tomorrow)...
-Andrea
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[Andrea Righi]

Post by Bernard Li
If you decide to incorporate the latest busybox, please remember to
turn on the CONFIG_FEATURE_MODPROBE_FANCY_ALIAS and remove Andrea's
patch for taking care of modprobing modules with "-" and "_". For
Andrea, so are you suggesting that the new busybox goes into trunk
after you tag unstable 3.9.x?

yes, as I said, trunk now is quite stable and we have important
improvements, like kexec and pci-automod. It would be great to have
feekbacks from some testers about this new features without introducing
too much entropy... In the while we can start to test & debug the new
busybox in our PCs (remember: svn log -r 3974
svn://svn.systemimager.org/var/lib/svn/systemimager/trunk).

-Andrea

[Erich Focht]

Andrea,

I'll wait until the release is out. Thanks, Bernard, for the hint.

Regards,
Erich

Post by Andrea Righi

Post by Bernard Li
If you decide to incorporate the latest busybox, please remember to
turn on the CONFIG_FEATURE_MODPROBE_FANCY_ALIAS and remove Andrea's
patch for taking care of modprobing modules with "-" and "_". For
Andrea, so are you suggesting that the new busybox goes into trunk
after you tag unstable 3.9.x?

yes, as I said, trunk now is quite stable and we have important
improvements, like kexec and pci-automod. It would be great to have
feekbacks from some testers about this new features without introducing
too much entropy... In the while we can start to test & debug the new
busybox in our PCs (remember: svn log -r 3974
svn://svn.systemimager.org/var/lib/svn/systemimager/trunk).
-Andrea