distro package wishlist
Joel Newkirk
freerunner at newkirk.us
Fri Nov 14 23:27:36 CET 2008
On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:19:54 -0200, Werner Almesberger
<werner at openmoko.org> wrote:
> Dear distro makers,
>
> there is a number of packages I'd love to have in the daily feed.
> - last but not least, I've made a little utility that puts together
> a rootfs from precompiled packages, using opkg-target. It's in
> http://svn.openmoko.org/developers/werner/myroot/
>
> The "engineering" image I make with it tries to avoid busybox and
> installs "full versions" of the respective programs. Unfortunately,
> not all the necessary packages are in our feed. Here are the things
> I'm looking for and where I would find them on Ubuntu or Gentoo:
>
> Ubuntu name Gentoo name What I'm looking for
> --------------- --------------- --------------------
> net-tools = ifconfig, route
> iproute iproute2 ip
> iputils-ping iputils ping
> dnsutils bind-tools dig, nslookup
> traceroute = traceroute
> psmisc = killall
> tar = tar
> coreutils = df, env
> debianutils which which
I have full ip (iproute2) on my 'must-have' list, installing
http://newkirk.us/om/iproute2_2.6.26_armv4t.ipk in the first wave of
changes after every reflash of my Freerunner. I'd originally depended on
it (unknowingly) for route metric support when fixing the DNS &
defaultroute issues in every image I've seen lately.
(http://jthinks.com/better-freerunner-networking) Luckily the busybox
version of 'route' supports metrics, so my fixes only depend on resolvconf
being installed. I also use 'dig' constantly on servers, so although I
never opkg'ed it up I keep that on my server as well. (full bind9 actually:
dig, nslookup, named, rndc and host, though I only use dig on the FR)
It would be great to see those in the feed, as well as a fixed resolvconf.
(needs /etc/resolvconf subfolder 'run', with empty subfolder 'interface'
and empty files 'resolv.conf' and 'enable-updates' under 'run',
/etc/resolv.conf as symlink to /etc/resolvconf/run/resolv.conf, and file
/lib/resolvconf/list-records - my netfix tarball has these fixes)
j
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