Thread: [Announce] Enhanced BusyBox package
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Mentalist Traceur is offline Mentalist Traceur
2014-02-08 , 08:55
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#397
Originally Posted by hxka View Post
I already thought about that, but dpkg -b passes --format=gnu parameter to tar, which busybox's one doesn't know. So you have to either install gnu-tar or binutils (for ar), or package something else with shell script. The irony here.
Damn it. Well, I suppose I COULD re-implement the relevant archiving compression algorithms in the shell... But that's just too much agony. Still, I for one would welcome one dependency if it let me remove many.

But besides that I guess it's fallback-to-fake-provide(s) packages. Having this script to automate the process to at least the point of having it ready to send to auto-builder would make it easier to send a bunch of fkdep-* packages to the repos.

Thought: The argument against doing 'provides' for existing packages that are more fully featured is made weaker by the fact that deb supports versioned dependencies, which can never be satisfied by a provides.
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