gnu coreutils and full bash support
 

Hi,

i have looked for the bash on Maemo and found it in the repositorys. I can set it with chsh for root, when i set it for the user then the N900 will no more boot, can anybody confirm this? The only solution is to flash the device.

A other question is, if anybody has managed it to install gnu coreutils. I miss the 'ls' color support and a few programs in this package. Busybox is a bit - minimalistic :) I haven't found the coreutils package in the repo, perhaps anybody has compiled it for the target platform?

with kind regards

Patrick

Re: gnu coreutils and full bash support
 

Gnu coreutils(as gcoreutils and also gtar) are available in my repository(see signature).

Yes setting shell to anything other than sh will kill the device.

Re: gnu coreutils and full bash support
 

ruskie: is there any way you can upload those to Extras-devel? Gnu tar would be very nice, also.

Also, it is best to make an icon that starts an xterminal running bash. I wish the bash package would include this icon. Is the maintainer on talk.maemo.org?

Re: gnu coreutils and full bash support
 

I don't really much care for extras so none of my packages are actually extras friendly and most don't even have any fields and so on setup properly.

I find working with debian/ stuff annoying.

But I do provide deb-src for all of this os if anyone else is willing to do the effort to move it to extras then do so.

I already help out with another distro so I don't want to become a maintainer around here. No time and energy.

Re: gnu coreutils and full bash support
 

I set /bin/bash as the shell for user in /etc/passwd and it works ok for me, obiously after installing bash.

Re: gnu coreutils and full bash support
 

Did you reboot yet?

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<br>Indeed. I did this about a month ago and it's been fine ever since. I've left root with the default shell though. <br>

Re: gnu coreutils and full bash support
 

Hmm each time I changed that it failed to boot.

Re: gnu coreutils and full bash support
 

Yes, don't link /bin/sh to /bin/bash. BAD!

Just use /bin/bash in /etc/passwd for user and/or root.

Re: gnu coreutils and full bash support
 

I didn't link it... I only changed it in passwd and it failed to boot.