On Thu, Oct 08, 2026 at 14:20:07 -0400, Robert Heller wrote: > On my Raspberry Pi, running Raspbian 12 (Debian 12), busybox-static is shipped > because it is used by the init ramdisk build script. It is included as the > "shell" in the init ramdisk. There are actually two busybox packages: > > marchhare% dpkg-query -l busybox\*|cat > Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold > | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend > |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase?d) > ||/ Name Version Architecture Description > +++-==============-=====================-============-=====================================================un > busybox <none> <none> (no description available) > ii busybox-static 1:1.35.0-4+deb12u1+b1 arm64 Standalone rescue shell > with tons of builtin utilities
And my non-Raspberry Trixie system has the exact opposite: ii busybox 1:1.37.0-6+b9 amd64 [...] un busybox-static <none> <none>
