[OpenWrt-Devel] default console patch / avoiding differential busybox builds

[Daniel Dickinson]

Hi all,

I just thought I'd let you know I got thinking about the patch making 
the config option to make console login the default on certain platform 
and the undesirable fact that it alters the busybox config, and have 
plans for a solution.

I also intend to use this same concept for two other scenarios:

1) Supporting old-style net-tools (ifconfig/route/netstat) without 
requiring it them to be part of the default openwrt build (once I submit 
my patch for udhcpc netifd script that uses route and ifconfig to use ip 
command instead).

2) Support a version busybox to provide programs not provided elsewhere 
when using full versions of commands normally in busybox, without 
requiring custom compiled version of openwrt/sdk.

My plan is to add (in packages feed, not base), builds of busybox that 
include only appropriate subset of commands, call busybox e.g. 
net-tools, and creates (i.e. package creates rather than relying on 
busybox's install logic) the symlinks the the alternately named busybox.

2) is mostly an exercise to prepare for the real goal which is 
supporting toybox instead of busybox once toybox has completed 
sufficient set of tasks in it's 1.0 roadmap to be useful for OpenWrt, 
and then it's not about 2) itself but the metapackage I am creating that 
make for a drop-in replacement of busybox (in terms of allowing 
busybox-compat-full to take the place of busybox via use of PROVIDES to 
avoid real busybox being installed when busybox-compat-full is specified).

Regards,

Daniel
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