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On Thu, 2021-09-09 at 15:47 -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote: |
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> busybox[static] was added to @system as a system recovery tool. |
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> |
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> If the system is in such a state that a static shell is needed for |
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> recovery, it is likely that remote access is also broken, and the |
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> sysadmin will need to log into a console. At that point, they could |
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> boot |
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> from recovery media anyway. |
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> |
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> Also, stage3 tarballs are often used to build containers, where having |
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> a recovery tool installed is completely pointless. |
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> |
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> Signed-off-by: Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o> |
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> --- |
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> profiles/default/linux/packages | 3 +-- |
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> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) |
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> |
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> diff --git a/profiles/default/linux/packages |
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> b/profiles/default/linux/packages |
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> index d0b8745d044..6d35bf72e20 100644 |
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> --- a/profiles/default/linux/packages |
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> +++ b/profiles/default/linux/packages |
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> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ |
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> -# Copyright 2004-2015 Gentoo Foundation. |
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> +# Copyright 2004-2021 Gentoo Authors. |
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> # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 |
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> |
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> # This file extends the base packages file for the default profile |
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> that all |
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> @@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ |
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> # will have. Some will have an selinux profile (see |
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> ${PORTDIR}/profiles/selinux). |
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> # The idea is to only create a new family of profiles when absolutely |
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> necessary. |
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> |
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> -*sys-apps/busybox |
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> *sys-apps/iproute2 |
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> *sys-apps/man-pages |
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> *sys-apps/net-tools |
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I fully support this |
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+1 |