On Mon 27 Mar 2017 at 21:48:00 (+0000), kAt wrote: > PS off-topic rant > I just updated and a package named busybox came up. Since I didn't know > what it was I went into the page and its most recent revision of 1/2017 > seemed to be 3 years ahead of the testing/unstable version that we just > updated now! And this is very basic common stuff like cp and fdisk > ...... How conservative is our system? Wowww!
Type the following: $ mkdir /tmp/foo $ cd /tmp/foo $ zcat /initrd.img | cpio --extract --no-absolute-filenames $ ls -i bin sbin | sort -nr | more and you will see that the overwhelming majority of commands, over 180 of them, are all in the one busybox binary of a little over ½MB. Were you to run a shell in the debian-installer (Alt-F2), you'd see that all those commands are much less well-endowed than the versions you know and love. Cheers, David.
