[Aboriginal] busybox awk

[stephen Turner]

I just need a Crutch to get me through till Toybox is finished. Busybox is
a easy and obvious choice but caught me by surprise when i received the awk
error. I'm glad the latest version fixes it so i can just manually fetch
the latest busybox.

You still do some work for busybox then or just maintain the latest folder?

On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 7:21 AM, Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:

> On 11/05/14 21:22, stephen Turner wrote:
> > Thanks, I have a script that downloads the latest busybox from a folder
> > labeled latest which apparently hasnt been updated in a while and so I
> > was using an unpatched busybox *sigh*  which has a awk bug that was
> > repaired apparently a year ago so says one source. So much for being the
> > latest......
>
> Um, that's probably my fault. I used to upload busybox binaries from my
> aboriginal builds to busybox.net, but haven't done so in ages because
> toybox is now replacing most of the commands out of that so I haven't
> bothered to upgrade the busybox version aboriginal is using in a while.
>
> Locally I have the latest one in the build, I can upload binaries from
> that next time I cut a release. (If I can remember my password to the
> busybox server, anyway. Login's via ssh key but sudo prompts me. I keep
> changing the permissions on the directory so I can write to it without
> that and somebody keeps "fixing" it so I have to use sudo. Because
> requiring me to do stuff as root is far more secure than letting my user
> have write permission to specific directories...)
>
> Rob
>
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