On 08.07.2012 17:08, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Michael Tokarev <m...@tls.msk.ru> (08/07/2012): >> #680342 - http://bugs.debian.org/679377 >> xargs applet does not implement basic POSIX-specified features > > Question: is it expected it's not available in the initramfs?
it is not available there now (before the last upload and this request) just because no one come to the missing feature yet. "Regular" initramfs does not use lots of utils or features, as it only needs very minimal stuff. But various "live" distributions/scripts based on Debian initramfs or based on other things does more and, obviously, require more. Just like I weren't aware of the issue with awk (also addressed by this release) until it popped up in external live script (which uses awk). Ofcourse nothing stops regular debian packages to at least try to use and hit missing features. It just did not happen yet. I was slowly turning various features on to make the whole thing at least "basically" POSIX-compatible, because overwise it is not clear on what to base things. And this is something I obviously overlooked. It come to my attention immediately when I was debugging the awk-in-busybox problem, and temporarily replaced /bin/sh on my regular system with busybox ash, which prefers internal busybox applets, and various cron jobs started excersising various busybox applets, and it > Apparently that was the case already for alpha1, and is still the > case now. (I wanted to check whether that -0 thingy was working as > expected.) Note: regular initramfs is not the same as d-i. I assume by "alpha1" you're talking about d-i -- there, xargs applet isn't even enabled to start with. Yes, I'd expect udeb version of busybox to have more applets usually, but udeb is dealt with on case-by-case basis: when something is needed it is enabled. So, in d-i, xargs does not exist at all, and this change makes no difference. (And there's a harmless bug in this my busybox release -- I enabled xargs features for udeb build, but not the xargs itself. These config options are unused even if turned on, since they depend on enabled xargs which is not. I noticed it right after the upload, but decided this "issue" isn't worth another upload). [] >> P.S. This is my first unblock request, so I'm not yet sure how to do >> it all properly. > > Looks pretty much OK to me. Actually it is not: I learned too late. It is the wrong thing to do -- to upload first and request to unblock later, when there might be questionable changes. >> unblock busybox/1:1.20.0-5 > > Release team: ACK on the d-i side, urgent appreciated while you're at > it. Thank you for your time! /mjt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
