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Re: Busybox in Debian

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On Fri, 2017-08-11 at 14:54 -0400, Chris Boot wrote:
[...]
> - The default initramfs assembly system, initramfs-tools, incorporates
> busybox into the initramfs and it's used until the root filesystem (and
> /usr if separate) is mounted and can be pivot_rooted into. We also use
> parts of klibc in the initramfs, and I'm not yet entirely clear what
> tools in the initramfs are klibc tools, busybox applets or executables
> copied from the running system.
[...]

If initramfs-tools is configured to use busybox, busybox installs all
its commands and then klibc-utils installs any commands that are not
already there.  So for any command that they both implement, the
busybox implementation is used.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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Busybox in Debian Chris Boot <bootc@debian.org> - 2017-08-11 19:10 +0200
  Re: Busybox in Debian Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> - 2017-08-11 20:40 +0200
    Re: Busybox in Debian Chris Boot <bootc@debian.org> - 2017-08-11 21:00 +0200
      Re: Busybox in Debian Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2017-08-12 16:20 +0200
        Re: Busybox in Debian Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2017-08-14 15:10 +0200
          Re: Busybox in Debian Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> - 2017-08-14 15:50 +0200
            Re: Busybox in Debian Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> - 2017-08-14 17:10 +0200
              Re: Busybox in Debian Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2017-08-14 17:20 +0200
                Re: Busybox in Debian Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> - 2017-08-18 21:10 +0200
                Re: Busybox in Debian Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> - 2017-08-21 20:00 +0200
                Re: Busybox in Debian Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2017-08-21 20:40 +0200
                Re: Busybox in Debian Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> - 2017-08-22 11:00 +0200
                Re: Busybox in Debian Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2017-08-23 02:50 +0200
                Re: Busybox in Debian Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> - 2017-08-23 15:00 +0200
                Re: Busybox in Debian Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2017-08-26 02:20 +0200
                Re: Busybox in Debian Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> - 2018-01-14 17:30 +0100
        Re: Busybox in Debian Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> - 2017-08-14 15:20 +0200

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