[BusyBox] Getting started on 1.0.1-rc2

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Wed Aug 10 17:30:30 MDT 2005


Forensics on the patches up through 11099.  (This is just a quick first pass 
from the patch descriptions, without actually having looked at all the code 
of these patches yet.)

Todo:
  zap docs directory (at least web pages), patches directory.
  Make decisions about leftovers from -rc1 (10159 10166 10238 10254 10310)

Probably:

10845, 10846, 10847, 10848, 10854 makedevs
10849, 10851, 10873 vi bugfixes
10853 nc bugfix
10860, 10870: traceroute fix for arm platform.
10862 cp -p error message
10864, 10999 inetd fix
10865 suid thing?  (look at this)
10866 ftp fix for RFC 959 compliance.
10867 Remove spurious newline from cp -i prompt.
10868 Fix mv (could delete destination when source didn't exist).
10874 ksyslogd fix
10861, 10875, 10881, 10888 ash fix
10876 msh fix
10877 httpd fix
10880, 10889, 11005 dhcp fixes
10882 tar fix
10884, 10920 tail fixes
10885 tftp -g fix
10900 dpkg fix (script support)
10918 remove unused file.
10945, 10946 Make compile much, much faster.
10946, 10991, 10998, 11003 small makefile fix...
10957 start-stop-daemon -q
10979 remove unused variable
10981, 10982, 10994, 10996, 10997: dumpkmap cleanup
10983: top tweak
11000 traceroute
11001 fgrep fix

More info (need to look at patch, scratch head a bit):
10917 something to do with stat.c?
10923 big makefile change.  Nervous.
10974: is this a bugfix, or a follow-up to 10887?
10975: what?
10977: how much ipv6 support is in 1.0?  This needed?
11002 ether-wake and uclibc?
11007 init is still horked...
11010 remove uclibc #ifdef from inetd.
11011 whitespace changes to makefile?
11012 bbconfigopts.h dependency?
11043: modprobe not needing /bin/sh

Probably not:

10863,10901,10933,10976,11099 The mount rewrite is 1.1 material.
10878 implement "ip route flush cache" - new feature.
10879 bugfix for new sort: 1.0 doesn't have new sort.
10883 nc -e
10886 scriptable telnet (new feature, why not nc???)
10887 The zip rewrite is a new feature.
10922 #ifdef newlib is not an improvement.
10929, 10944, 11023 ENABLED_STUFF is 1.1 material.
10973, 10984 mke2fs
10978, 10980: NO!  Evil evil evil evil...
10992: docs directory not relevant in 1.0
10995: I don't care about devfs.
11006, 11008, 11015 new applets.
11009 ls new option (--color).
11044, 11083: ash new features (vi editing mode, builtin echo)



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