[PATCH] sln: Install as a hard link to ldconfig
Maciej W. Rozycki
macro@imgtec.com
Tue Aug 2 16:28:00 GMT 2016
On Tue, 2 Aug 2016, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> i agree, but i don't think it's something we need to support. having just
> a static (bash) shell doesn't get you very far -- you've got a few bash
> builtins and that's it. trying to actually recover from things often need
> far more commands. sln only helps you with creating symlinks (e.g. like
> resetting glibc links, assuming it's a glibc install error). i think that
> special casing this one scenario doesn't make sense nowadays.
FAOD, I wrote:
> This is to get the facts straight that is -- whether to keep or discard
> `sln' is of course another matter.
which I think clarifies my statement was not meant to support the
retaining of `sln', but just to clear any confusion there might be about
ways of recovery provided by Linux.
> in Gentoo, we ship a build of busybox with a lot of built-in commands.
> you can recover form a wide range of issues, set up the network, fetch
> files over the network, and decompress/unpack archives.
Coincidentally I thought it would be a good idea to have `busybox' as the
static shell, so I find it nice that you have thought about it too.
Maciej
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