Bug#537623: ITP: busybox-syslogd -- Provides syslogd and klogd using busybox' implementation
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 23:41:24 +0200, Axel Beckert wrote: Debian's busybox package has the syslogd and klogd functionalities already compiled in, but to use them, a little bit more than a few symbolic links is needed. This package provides the appropriate dependencies, the symbolic links for syslogd and klogd, man pages (also symlinks), and init.d scripts. why does this need a separate source package? Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#537623: ITP: busybox-syslogd -- Provides syslogd and klogd using busybox' implementation
Hi Julien, On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 01:24:52PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: Debian's busybox package has the syslogd and klogd functionalities already compiled in, but to use them, a little bit more than a few symbolic links is needed. This package provides the appropriate dependencies, the symbolic links for syslogd and klogd, man pages (also symlinks), and init.d scripts. why does this need a separate source package? Ah, right, I forgot to update the status quo: I'm currently working with Otavio Salvador to integrate it directly into the busybox source package. Same counts for Luca's ideas of busybox-udhcpc and busybox-udhcpd. Regards, Axel -- Axel Beckert - a...@deuxchevaux.org, a...@noone.org - http://noone.org/abe/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#537623: ITP: busybox-syslogd -- Provides syslogd and klogd using busybox' implementation
user pkg-fso-ma...@lists.alioth.debian.org usertags 537623 + package-dependencies thanks Hi there! On Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:41:24 +0200, Axel Beckert wrote: * Package name: busybox-syslogd Version : 0.1 May I suggest to use the same version number as busybox? Description : Provides syslogd and klogd using busybox' implementation Debian's busybox package has the syslogd and klogd functionalities already compiled in, but to use them, a little bit more than a few symbolic links is needed. This package provides the appropriate dependencies, the symbolic links for syslogd and klogd, man pages (also symlinks), and init.d scripts. I like very much this idea, which to some extents I would like to see implemented for another busybox binary, udhcpc (which should probably generate from the very same source package). This because the udhcpc package contains is a duplication of code already included in busybox and nowadays that busybox provides the udhcpc binary I do not see the reason for an external package. The same applies to the udhcpd package. Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca pgpJUbknqBDEs.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#537623: ITP: busybox-syslogd -- Provides syslogd and klogd using busybox' implementation
Hi Luca, On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 01:43:05AM +0200, Luca Capello wrote: user pkg-fso-ma...@lists.alioth.debian.org usertags 537623 + package-dependencies *g* I use it on my OpenMoko FreeRunner, too. On Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:41:24 +0200, Axel Beckert wrote: * Package name: busybox-syslogd Version : 0.1 JFYI, there is a package available for testing at http://noone.org/debian/busybox-syslogd_0.1_all.deb May I suggest to use the same version number as busybox? IMHO that doesn't make much sense since it doesn't really depend on a specific version of busybox as long as the appropriate commands are compiled in. Without packaging I ran it on Etch and also my first tries to package it were on Etch. So it should basically work from at least busybox 1.1.3 onwards. The package mentioned above definitely runs on Lenny as well as on Sid which means with busybox versions 1.13.3 and 1.10.2. Description : Provides syslogd and klogd using busybox' implementation Debian's busybox package has the syslogd and klogd functionalities already compiled in, but to use them, a little bit more than a few symbolic links is needed. This package provides the appropriate dependencies, the symbolic links for syslogd and klogd, man pages (also symlinks), and init.d scripts. I like very much this idea, which to some extents I would like to see implemented for another busybox binary, udhcpc (which should probably generate from the very same source package). Then I suggest to rename to source package appropriately. Your suggestion (while talking to you here at DebConf :-) of busybox-aliases as source package name sounds fine to me. This because the udhcpc package contains is a duplication of code already included in busybox and nowadays that busybox provides the udhcpc binary I do not see the reason for an external package. And it's far more outdated than a symlinked udhcpc would be. The udhcp source package seems to be based on busybox' implementation, too, but the homepage http://udhcp.busybox.net/ (as given in the copyright file) doesn't exist anymore. The upstream version 0.9.8 is from 2005, busybox is at 1.1.3 in oldstable and at 1.13.3 in unstable. According to popcon it still has 100 to 150 installation. If the symlinked version proves to work reliably, it could be possible to make it replace the udhcpc package completely in future. (Wouldn't be the first package I adopt from Eric. :-) The same applies to the udhcpd package. Not completely. The udhcpd command is not compiled in in Debian's busybox package. So you should probably file a wishlist bug against busybox to include it. A propspective busybox-udhcpd package then of course would have a versioned dependency on the busybox package closing that wishlist bug. Regards and thanks for the feedback, Axel -- Axel Beckert - a...@deuxchevaux.org, a...@noone.org - http://noone.org/abe/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#537623: ITP: busybox-syslogd -- Provides syslogd and klogd using busybox' implementation
Package: wnpp Owner: Axel Beckert a...@deuxchevaux.org Severity: wishlist * Package name: busybox-syslogd Version : 0.1 Author : Axel Beckert a...@deuxchevaux.org * URL or Web page : http://noone.org/hg/busybox-syslogd/ * License : GPL-2+ Description : Provides syslogd and klogd using busybox' implementation Debian's busybox package has the syslogd and klogd functionalities already compiled in, but to use them, a little bit more than a few symbolic links is needed. This package provides the appropriate dependencies, the symbolic links for syslogd and klogd, man pages (also symlinks), and init.d scripts. Additionally it provides the logread utility (yet another symlink) which allows to read the syslog if stored in a ring buffer in memory instead of on disk. This is something AFAIK no other syslog package in Debian currently offers. So this package fills the gap of a syslogd for e.g. SSD or flash based systems which don't want or need permanent (local) storage of the system log, but needs access to the recent syslog anyway, i.e. netbooks, laptops, wireless routers, etc. Another advantage for low-resource or embedded systems is that it only needs very few disk space to install. Regards, Axel -- Axel Beckert - a...@deuxchevaux.org - http://abe.home.pages.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
