From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.reciva.com ([109.169.29.93] helo=crown.reciva.com) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OWRuS-0007qt-9u for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Wed, 07 Jul 2010 12:31:22 +0200 Received: from [62.7.80.98] (helo=lurch.internal.reciva.com) by crown.reciva.com with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OWRpm-0003rE-Bc for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Wed, 07 Jul 2010 11:26:30 +0100 Received: from mill.internal.reciva.com ([192.168.106.87] ident=pb) by lurch.internal.reciva.com with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1OWRpm-0002Zp-2T for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Wed, 07 Jul 2010 11:26:30 +0100 From: Phil Blundell To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org In-Reply-To: <0B51A1E7C61D114DAE6FC10B0FD0ABA501819C15@deimsg40.de.net.world> References: <0B51A1E7C61D114DAE6FC10B0FD0ABA501819C15@deimsg40.de.net.world> Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2010 11:26:29 +0100 Message-ID: <1278498389.2345.1744.camel@mill.internal.reciva.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.1.2 X-Broken-Reverse-DNS: no host name found for IP address 62.7.80.98 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 109.169.29.93 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: philb@gnu.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on discovery X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:20:07 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on linuxtogo.org) Subject: Re: Is there a recipe for building and using busybox with libbusybox out there ? X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2010 10:31:22 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 11:45 +0200, Hauser, Wolfgang (external) wrote: > I want to use busybox with the applet binaries linked against libbusybox > in our system. > We need a wide range of applets at the same time, so I suppose it will > save overall needed memory space. What's the advantage of this? I would have thought it would give you a larger memory footprint rather than a smaller one. I guess I must be missing something. > Also I want to prevent the system from updating alternatives while the > first boot. We have to provide a read only root file system. Yeah, this is a long-standing piece of OE suckage. We should fix the alternative selection to work at image construction time. p.