Re: [gentoo-user] Most important packages to save buildpkg of

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

On Monday 22 January 2007 00:12, Dale <dalek@××××××××××.net> wrote 
about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Most important packages to save buildpkg of':
> Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> > On Sunday 21 January 2007 09:55, Dale <dalek@××××××××××.net> wrote
> >> What is say the top ten or twelve
> >> programs that would be good to have in case of a rescue?
> >
> > Have busybox *installed*,
> > statically linked.
>
> I have busybox installed.  I wonder where that came from.  :/  This is
>
> what it says the flags are:
> > [ebuild   R   ] sys-apps/busybox-1.2.2.1  USE="-debug -make-symlinks
> > -netboot -savedconfig -static" 1,380 kB

I'd go ahead and set that static flag; while it doesn't use the c++ 
libraries (the most common fsck-up with glibc), it does link to libc (and 
possibly others) dynamically, and it's nice to be able to recover even a 
screwed up ld-linux.so or libc.6.so.  You don't want it for all packages, 
so use /etc/portage/package.use to set it just for busybox.

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