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"SLC5X: Letter B: busybox

busybox - Statically linked binary providing simplified versions of system commands

Website: http://www.busybox.net
License: GPL
Vendor: Scientific Linux CERN, http://cern.ch/linux
Description:
Busybox is a single binary which includes versions of a large number
of system commands, including a shell.  This package can be very
useful for recovering from certain types of system failures,
particularly those involving broken shared libraries.

Packages

busybox-1.2.0-14.el5.i386 [1.1 MiB] Changelog by Denys Vlasenko (2012-07-17):
- Resolves: #834277
  "Installation from NFS: That directory could not be mounted from the server"
busybox-1.2.0-13.el5.i386 [1.1 MiB] Changelog by Denys Vlasenko (2011-12-31):
- Resolves: #768083 "busybox various flaws" including:
  "buffer underflow in decompression"
  "udhcpc insufficient checking of DHCP options"
busybox-1.2.0-10.el5_7.1.i386 [1.0 MiB] Changelog by Denys Vlasenko (2012-01-08):
- Resolves: #761532
  "Kdump fails after findfs subcommand of busybox fails"
busybox-1.2.0-10.el5.i386 [1.0 MiB] Changelog by Denys Vlasenko (2011-05-31):
- Resolves: #708942
  "while loop cannot quit even if the list after while has failed"
busybox-1.2.0-9.el5.i386 [1.0 MiB] Changelog by Denys Vlasenko (2011-04-05):
- Resolves: #608927
  "busybox grep -Fi" doesn't work as expected
  (-i was ignored)
busybox-1.2.0-7.el5.i386 [1.0 MiB] Changelog by Ivana Varekova (2009-07-02):
- Resolves: #500547
  remove empty debuginfo package

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