On Thu, 2026-05-14 at 11:24 +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> 08.05.2026 12:23, Benjamin Drung wrote:
> > Package: busybox
> > Version: 1:1.37.0-10.1
> > Severity: wishlist
> > X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
> >
> > Dear Maintainer,
> >
> > please provide a busybox build specificly to be used in initrds like
> > initramfs-tools and dracut. If you are open to the idea, I can come up
> > with the list of applets to build and a patch for it.
>
> What's missing in the regular busybox build for this purpose for you?
It's the opposite. The busybox binary provides more applets that are
needed for the initrd use case. Ubuntu has currently a patch for busybox
to build an specific binary for initramfs-tools which is much smaller:
# ls -alh /usr/bin/busybox /usr/lib/initramfs-tools/bin/busybox
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 827K Jan 14 15:50 /usr/bin/busybox
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 323K Jan 14 15:50 /usr/lib/initramfs-tools/bin/busybox
# ldd /usr/bin/busybox
linux-vdso.so.1 (0x0000769a0daff000)
libresolv.so.2 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libresolv.so.2
(0x0000769a0da12000)
libc.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x0000769a0d7f1000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x0000769a0db01000)
# ldd /usr/lib/initramfs-tools/bin/busybox
linux-vdso.so.1 (0x000073e539db4000)
libc.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x000073e539b38000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x000073e539db6000)
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Benjamin Drung
Debian & Ubuntu Developer
