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| author | P. J. McDermott <pehjota> | 2014-04-02 18:56:40 (EDT) |
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| committer | P. J. McDermott <pjm@nac.net> | 2014-04-02 18:56:40 (EDT) |
| commit | a4977ca6623d0e5b644982737812a9dce4c14a1d (patch) | |
| tree | 423f2700582b980c8e7639f6e04a757e55a4ba5b | |
| parent | b1ac72a29ac701f0af62fd398c46814e4ecdb0b1 (diff) | |
dev/todo/removing-libbb-from-opkg: Update.
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diff --git a/dev/todo/removing-libbb-from-opkg.mdwn b/dev/todo/removing-libbb-from-opkg.mdwn index 2417261..f505b1f 100644 --- a/dev/todo/removing-libbb-from-opkg.mdwn +++ b/dev/todo/removing-libbb-from-opkg.mdwn @@ -1,5 +1,18 @@ [[!meta title="Removing libbb from opkg"]] +Upstream has done this, but in a different way. [Instead +of][opkg-devel-dropped] including an ancient +and patched copy of libbb, [opkg][opkg-git-add-dep] now [links +against][opkg-git-convert] libarchive. + +**The rest of this page is kept only for reference and historical purposes.** + +[opkg-devel-dropped]: https://groups.google.com/forum/?_escaped_fragment_=topic/opkg-devel/HYBBK8YeazI#!topic/opkg-devel/HYBBK8YeazI +[opkg-git-add-dep]: http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/opkg/commit/?id=55a5c61 +[opkg-git-convert]: http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/opkg/commit/?id=8e21478 + +--- + opkg includes and is statically linked with [a copy of libbb][opkg-libbb], BusyBox's helper library. Of course, BusyBox is also linked against its own copy of libbb. This is a bad idea in general, since duplicated code makes |