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From: Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel and busybox
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:23:15
Message-Id: CAA2qdGWZxoYWa-d5DX1CrMXgQ8mU4MYKHA9yJBYh5TiO2dYcUw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] genkernel and busybox by "András Csányi"
1 On Jan 24, 2012 4:40 PM, "András Csányi" <sayusi.ando@×××××.com> wrote:
2 >
3 > Dear All,
4 >
5 > I would like to ask what should I do in this case? I would like to
6 > make a new kernel using genkernel but there is no 1.8.1 version of
7 > busybox and it's not available in portage. To be honest I don't want
8 > to do a new kernel by hand despite the fact it would be a few
9 > commands.
10 >
11 > Thanks for any help in advance!
12 >
13 > sa-home Downloads # genkernel --menuconfig --no-mrproper --no-clean all
14 > * Gentoo Linux Genkernel; Version 3.4.23.1
15 > * Running with options: --menuconfig --no-mrproper --no-clean all
16 >
17 > Could not find source tarball
18 > /var/cache/genkernel/src/busybox-1.18.1.tar.bz2. Please refetch.
19 >
20 > sa-home Downloads # eix -s busybox
21 > [I] sys-apps/busybox
22 > Available versions: 1.17.4!t (~)1.18.4!t (~)1.18.5!t 1.19.0!t
23 > (~)1.19.2!t (~)1.19.2-r1!t (~)1.19.3!t 1.19.3-r1!t {debug elibc_glibc
24 > ipv6 make-symlinks mdev nfs -pam savedconfig selinux static}
25 > Installed versions: 1.19.3-r1!t(01:29:36 PM
26 > 01/16/2012)(elibc_glibc ipv6 pam -make-symlinks -mdev -savedconfig
27 > -selinux -static)
28 > Homepage: http://www.busybox.net/
29 > Description: Utilities for rescue and embedded systems
30 >
31 > sa-home Downloads #
32
33 Well, there's a forum thread with a similar problem:
34
35 http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-699180-start-0.html
36
37 Alternatively, compile busybox with USE=static, package it using quickpkg,
38 and tell genkernel to use that binary package using
39 --busybox-bin=/path/to/busybox-binary.tar.bz2
40
41 Rgds,