From: "Manuel A. McLure" <manuel@mclure.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my coreutils
Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2006 11:42:59 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200602051142.59980.manuel@mclure.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200602051935.32395.mike@gaima.co.uk>
On Sunday 05 February 2006 11:35 am, Mike Williams wrote:
> On Sunday 05 February 2006 18:27, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> > > Ehm. Which possibly creates a chicken-egg problem. How do you make the
> > > symlink from ln -> busybox without having /bin/ln in the first place ?
> >
> > There's no requirement for ln being a symlink. Instead, you could
> > also copy busybox to ln - cp busybox ln.
>
> cp is from coreutils too :)
Ah, but busybox does not have to be linked to the command names - you can do
busybox ln -s busybox ln
Any of the commands that busybox provides when linked/symlinked are available
by just calling busybox with the name of the command as the first argument.
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Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-05 10:13 [gentoo-user] Lost my coreutils Bogo Mipps
2006-02-05 10:34 ` Rumen Yotov
2006-02-05 12:30 ` Mike Williams
2006-02-05 18:10 ` Bogo Mipps
2006-02-05 18:18 ` Benno Schulenberg
2006-02-05 18:47 ` Rumen Yotov
2006-02-06 2:53 ` Bogo Mipps
2006-02-06 5:27 ` Rumen Yotov
2006-02-06 10:42 ` Martin Ullrich
2006-02-06 20:27 ` [gentoo-user] Lost my coreutils [SOLVED] Bogo Mipps
2006-02-06 20:27 ` Bogo Mipps
2006-02-05 12:54 ` [gentoo-user] Lost my coreutils Benno Schulenberg
2006-02-05 13:05 ` Benno Schulenberg
2006-02-05 16:07 ` Maarten
2006-02-05 16:57 ` Renat Golubchyk
2006-02-05 18:13 ` Benno Schulenberg
2006-02-05 18:27 ` Alexander Skwar
2006-02-05 19:35 ` Mike Williams
2006-02-05 19:42 ` Manuel A. McLure [this message]
2006-02-05 18:27 ` Bogo Mipps
2006-02-05 20:36 ` Benno Schulenberg
2006-02-05 21:00 ` Bogo Mipps
2006-02-05 22:36 ` Benno Schulenberg
2006-02-06 0:02 ` Benno Schulenberg
2006-02-06 0:27 ` Iain Buchanan
2006-02-06 2:59 ` Bogo Mipps
2006-02-06 11:21 ` Benno Schulenberg
2006-02-06 20:27 ` [gentoo-user] Lost my coreutils [SOLVED] Bogo Mipps
2006-02-05 15:56 ` [gentoo-user] Lost my coreutils Martins Steinbergs
2006-02-05 18:54 ` Martin Ullrich
2006-02-06 3:07 ` Bogo Mipps
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