On 10/20/14 11:03, stephen Turner wrote:
> 
>     Normally toybox just has symlinks of the command names that point to
>     the toybox binary file.  If you actually install packages with commands
>     that are in toybox then, depending on your package manager or whatever,
>     it's likely to overwrite the symlink with the proper binary file for
>     that command.
> 
> 
> I actually make use of this "overwrite" method to install busybox first
> and toybox second so that as the group implements additional features it
> will naturally phase out busybox. :)  In my case using a script with ln
> i have to add the -f "force" flag to overwrite existing links but it
> does the job very nicely.

scripts/install.sh has a bunch of flags, such as --force to do the -f.

Not that anybody ever notices since "make install" calls it with a
specific set of options. :)

Rob
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