3 Maintainer: Erik Andersen <andersee@debian.org>
4 Build-Depends: debhelper
5 Standards-Version: 3.1.1
9 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
10 Conflicts: binutils, bsdutils, console-tools, cpio, debianutils, dnsutils, dpkg, fbset, fdflush, fileutils, grep, gzip, hostname, modutils, mount, netbase, procps, psmisc, sed, sharutils, shellutils, sysklogd, sysvinit, tar, textutils, update, util-linux
13 Description: Tiny utilities for the debian-installer and for embedded systems.
14 BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single
15 small executable. It provides minimalist replacements for the most common
16 utilities you would usually find on your desktop system (i.e. ls, cp, mv,
17 mount, tar, etc). The utilities in BusyBox generally have fewer options than
18 their full-featured GNU cousins; however, the options that are included
19 provide the expected functionality and behave very much like their GNU
22 BusyBox is used by the debian-installer. Installing BusyBox onto your Debian
23 system is not recommended, unless you are intended to make a very small
24 embedded system. Chances are good that for embedded systems, you will want to
25 recompile to only include the tools and utilities you wish to include.
27 Package: busybox-static
29 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
31 Description: Provides a stand alone rescue shell with tons of builtin utilities.
32 BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single
33 small executable. It provides minimalist replacements for the most common
34 utilities you would usually find on your desktop system (i.e. ls, cp, mv,
35 mount, tar, etc). The utilities in BusyBox generally have fewer options than
36 their full-featured GNU cousins; however, the options that are included
37 provide the expected functionality and behave very much like their GNU
40 BusyBox-static provides you with a statically linked simple stand alone shell
41 that provides all the utilities available in BusyBox. This package is
42 intended to be used as a rescue shell, in the event that you screw up your
43 system. Invoke "busybox sh" and you have a standalone shell ready to save
44 your system from certain destruction. Invoke "busybox", and it will list the
45 available builtin commands.