Binary package hint: busybox
Shouldn't busybox be updated, recompiled dynamically linked with much more applets ?
I've busybox 1.7.0 (svn current) with the following applets:
[, [[, arp, arping, ash, awk, basename, bunzip2, bzcat,
cat, chgrp, chmod, chown, chroot, chvt, clear, cmp, comm,
cp, cpio, cut, date, dc, dd, deallocvt, df, diff, dirname,
dmesg, dos2unix, dpkg, dpkg-deb, du, dumpkmap, echo, egrep,
eject, env, expr, false, fbset, fdflush, fdformat, fdisk,
fgrep, find, ftpget, ftpput, grep, gunzip, gzip, halt,
head, hexdump, hostname, ifconfig, insmod, ip, kill, less,
ln, loadfont, loadkmap, losetup, ls, lsmod, md5sum, microcom,
mkdir, mkfifo, mknod, mkswap, mktemp, more, mount, mv,
od, openvt, patch, pidof, ping, ping6, pivot_root, poweroff,
printf, ps, pwd, readlink, reboot, reset, rm, rmdir, rmmod,
route, sed, setkeycodes, sh, sha1sum, sleep, sort, stat,
strings, stty, su, swapoff, swapon, sync, tail, tar, tee,
telnet, test, touch, tr, traceroute, true, tty, umount,
uname, uniq, unix2dos, vi, wc, wget, which, xargs, yes,
zcat
(dynamically linked). Using this busybox, my initramfs is 650Kb smaller
than the default one and I can troubleshoot problems (which, unfortunately,
are rather frequent with my setup) because a lot more utilities are present.
Certainly not for Gutsy. I'd prefer Debian to upgrade first.