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diff --git a/www/roadmap.html b/www/roadmap.html index 81dc6ff3..5eba3acc 100755..100644 --- a/www/roadmap.html +++ b/www/roadmap.html @@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ and progress towards implementing it.</p> <li>Miscelaneous: <a href=#klibc>klibc</a>, <a href=#glibc>glibc</a>, <a href=#sash>sash</a>, <a href=#sbase>sbase</a>, <a href=#uclinux>uclinux</a>...</li> +<li><a href=#packages>Other Packages</a></li> </ul> <hr /> @@ -1101,5 +1102,198 @@ ascii crc32 devmem fmt i2cdetect i2cdump i2cget i2cset mcookie prlimit sntp ulim </span> </b></blockquote> +<hr /> +<a name=packages /> +<h2>Other packages</h2> + +<p>System administrators have <a href=https://github.com/landley/toybox/issues/168#issuecomment-583725500>asked</a> what other Linux packages toybox commands +replace, so they can annotate alternatives in their package management system.</p> + +<p>This section uses the package definitions from Chapter 6 of +<a href=http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/downloads/9.0/LFS-BOOK-9.0-NOCHUNKS.html>Linux From Scratch 9.0</a>). Each package lists what we currently +replace, pending commands [in square brackets], and what we DON'T plan to +implement.</p> + +<p>Each "see also" note means the listed package also installs the listed shared +libraries. (While toybox contains equivalent functionality to a lot of these +shared libraries in its lib/ directory, it does not currently provide a shared +library interface.)</p> + +<h3>Packages toybox plans to provide complete-ish replacents for:</h3> +<ul> +<li><b>file</b>: file (see also: libmagic)</li> +<li><b>m4</b>: [m4]</li> +<li><b>bc</b>: [bc] [dc]</li> +<li><b>bison</b>: [yacc] (not: bison, see also: liby)</li> +<li><b>flex</b>: [lex] (not: flex flex++, see also: libfl)</li> +<li><b>make</b>: [make]</li> +<li><b>sed</b>: sed</li> +<li><b>grep</b>: grep egrep fgrep</li> +<li><b>bash</b>: bash sh (not: bashbug)</li> +<li><b>diffutils</b>: cmp [diff] [diff3] [sdiff]</li> +<li><b>gawk</b>: [awk] (not: gawk gawk-5.0.1)</li> +<li><b>findutils</b>: find xargs (not: locate updatedb)</li> +<li><b>less</b>: less (not: lessecho lesskey)</li> +<li><b>gzip</b>: zcat [gzip] [gunzip] [zcmp] [zdiff] [zegrep] [zfgrep] [zgrep] [zless] [zmore] +(not: gzexe uncompress zforce znew)</li> +<li><b>make</b>: [make]</li> +<li><b>patch</b>: patch</li> +<li><b>tar</b>: tar</li> +<li><b>procps-ng</b>: free pgrep pidof pkill ps sysctl top uptime vmstat w watch +[pmap] [pwdx] [slabtop] +(not: tload, see also libprocps)</li> +<li><b>sysklogd</b>: [klogd] [syslogd]</li> +<li><b>sysvinit</b>: [init] halt poweroff reboot killall5 [shutdown] +(not telinit runlevel fstab-decode bootlogd)</li> +<li><b>man</b>: man (but not accessdb apropos catman lexgrog mandb manpath whatis, +see also libman libmandb)</li> +<li><b>vim</b>: vi xxd (but not ex, rview, rvim, view, vim, vimdiff, vimtutor)</li> +<li><b>sysvinit</b>: [init] halt poweroff reboot killall5 [shutdown] +(not telinit runlevel fstab-decode bootlogd)</li> +<li><b>kmod</b>: insmod lsmod rmmod modinfo [modprobe] +(not: depmod kmod)</li> +<li><b>attr</b>: [getfattr] setfattr (not: attr, see also: libattr)</li> +<li><b>shadow</b>: [chfn] [chpasswd] [chsh] [groupadd] [groupdel] [groupmod] +[newusers] passwd [su] [useradd] [userdel] [usermod] +[lastlog] [login] [newgidmap] [newuidmap] +(not: chage expiry faillog groupmems grpck logoutd newgrp nologin pwck sg +vigr vipw, grpconv grpunconv pwconv pwunconv, chgpasswd gpasswd)</li> +<li><b>psmisc</b>: killall [fuser] [pstree] [peekfd] [prtstat] +(not: pslog pstree.x11)</li> +<li><b>inetutils</b>: dnsdomainname [ftp] hostname ifconfig ping ping6 [telnet] [tftp] [traceroute] (not: talk)</li> +<li><b>coreutils</b>: [ base64 basename true cat chgrp chmod chown chroot comm cp cut date +dd df dirname du echo env expand factor false fmt fold groups head id install +link ln logname ls md5sum mkdir mkfifo mknod mktemp mv nice nl nohup nproc od +paste printenv printf pwd readlink realpath rm rmdir seq sha1sum shred +sleep sort split stat sync tac tail tee test timeout touch true truncate +tty uname uniq unlink wc who whoami yes +[expr] [fold] [join] [numfmt] [runcon] [sha224sum] [sha256sum] [sha384sum] +[sha512sum] [stty] [b2sum] [tr] [unexpand] +(not: b2sum base32 basenc chcon cksum csplit dir dircolors hostid pathchk +pinky pr ptx shuf stdbuf sum tsort users vdir, see also libstdbuf)</li> +<li><b>util-linux</b>: blkid blockdev cal chrt dmesg eject fallocate flock hwclock +ionice kill logger losetup mcookie mkswap more mount mountpoint nsenter +pivot_root prlimit rename renice rev setsid swapoff swapon switch_root taskset +umount unshare uuidgen +[addpart] [fdisk] [findfs] [findmnt] [fsck] [fsfreeze] [fstrim] [getopt] +[hexdump] [linux32] [linux64] [lsblk] [lscpu] [lsns] [setarch] +(not: agetty blkdiscard blkzone cfdisk chcpu chmem choom col +colcrt colrm column ctrlaltdel delpart fdformat fincore fsck.cramfs +fsck.minix ipcmk ipcrm ipcs isosize last lastb ldattach look lsipc +lslocks lslogins lsmem mesg mkfs mkfs.bfs mkfs.cramfs mkfs.minix namei partx +raw readprofile resizepart rfkill rtcwake script scriptreplay +setterm sfdisk sulogin swaplabel ul +uname26 utmpdump uuidd uuidparse wall wdctl whereis wipefs +i386 x86_64 zramctl)</li> +</ul> + +<p>Commentary: toybox init doesn't do runlevels, man and vim are just the +relevant commands without the piles of strange overgrowth, and if you want +to call a toybox binary by another name you can create a symlink to a +symlink. If somebody really wants to argue for "gzexe" or similar, be +my guest, but there's a lot of obsolete crap in shadow, coreutils, +util-linux...</p> + +<p>No idea why LFS is installing inetutils instead of net-tools +(which contains arp route ifconfig mii-tool nameif netstat and rarp that +toybox does or might implement, and plipconfig slattach that it probably won't.)</p> + +<h3>Packages toybox plans to provide partial replacents for:</h3> + +<p>Toybox provides replacements for some binaries from these packages, +but there are other useful binaries which this package provides that toybox +currently considers out of scope for the project:</p> + +<ul> +<li><b>binutils</b>: strings [ar] [nm] [readelf] [size] [objcopy] [strip] +(not c++filt, dwp, elfedit, gprof. The following commands belong +in <a href=/code/qcc>qcc</a>: addr2line as ld objdump ranlib)</li> +<li><b>bzip2</b>: bunzip2 bzcat [bzcmp] [bzdiff] [bzegrep] [bzfgrep] [bzgrep] [bzless] +[bzmore] (not: bzip2, bzip2recover, see also libbz2)</li> +<li><b>xz</b>: [xzcat] [lzcat] [lzcmp] [lzdiff] [lzegrep] [lzfgrep] [lzgrep] +[lzless] [lzmadec, lzmainfo] [lzmore] [unlzma] [unxz] [xzcat] +[xzcmp] [xzdec] [xzdiff] [xzegrep] [xzfgrep] [xzgrep] [xzless] [xzmore] +(not: compression side, see also: liblzma)</li> +<li><b>ncurses</b>: clear reset (not: everything else, see also: libcurses)</li> +<li><b>e2fsprogs</b>: chattr lsattr [e2fsck] [mkfs.ext2] [mkfs.ext3] +[fsck.ext2] [fsck.ext3] [e2label] [resize2fs] [tune2fs] +(not badblocks compile_et debugfs dumpe2fse2freefrag e2image +e2mmpstatus e2scrub e2scrub_all e2undo e4crypt e4defrag filefrag +fsck.ext4 logsave mk_cmds mkfs.ext4 mklost+found)</li> +</ul> + +<p>Toybox provides several decompressors but compresses to a single format +(deflate, ala gzip/zlib). Our e2fsprogs doesn't currently plan to support +ext4 or defrag. The "qcc" reference is because someday an external project to glue +QEMU's <a href=https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=blob;f=tcg/README;h=bfa2e4ed246c;hb=HEAD>Tiny Code Generator</a> +to Fabrice Bellard's old <a href=http://landley.net/hg/tinycc>Tiny C Compiler</a> +making a multicall binary that does cc/ld/as for all the targets QEMU +supports (then use the +<a href=https://github.com/JuliaComputing/llvm-cbe>LLVM C Backend</a> +to compile LLVM itself to C for use as a modern replacement for +<a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cfront>cfront</a> to bootstrap +C++ code) is under consideration +as a successor project to toybox. Until then things like objdump -d +(requiring target-specific disassembly for an unbounded number of architectures) +are out of scope for toybox. (This means drawing the line somewhere between +architecture-specific support in file and strace, and including a full +assembler for each architecture.)</p> +</span> + +<h3>Packages from LFS ch6 toybox does NOT plan to replace:</h3> + +<ul> +<li><b>linux-api-headers</b></li> +<li><b>man-pages glibc</b></li> +<li><b>zlib</b></li> +<li><b>readline</b></li> +<li><b>gmp</b></li> +<li><b>mpfr</b></li> +<li><b>mpc</b></li> +<li><b>gcc</b></li> +<li><b>pkg-config</b></li> +<li><b>ncurses</b></li> +<li><b>acl</b></li> +<li><b>libcap</b></li> +<li><b>psmisc</b></li> +<li><b>iana-etc</b></li> +<li><b>libtool</b></li> +<li><b>gdbm</b></li> +<li><b>gperf</b></li> +<li><b>expat</b></li> +<li><b>perl</b></li> +<li><b>XML::Parser</b></li> +<li><b>intltool</b></li> +<li><b>autoconf</b></li> +<li><b>automake</b></li> +<li><b>gettext</b></li> +<li><b>libelf</b></li> +<li><b>libffi</b></li> +<li><b>openssl</b></li> +<li><b>python</b></li> +<li><b>ninja</b></li> +<li><b>meson</b></li> +<li><b>check</b></li> +<li><b>groff</b></li> +<li><b>grub</b></li> +<li><b>libpipeline</b></li> +<li><b>texinfo</b></li> +</ul> + +<p>That said, we do implement our own zlib and readline replacements, and +presumably _could_ export them as library bindings. Plus we provide +our own version of a bunch of the section 1 man pages (as command help). +Possibly libcap and acl are interesting?</p> + +<h3>Misc</h3> + +<p>The kbd package has over a dozen commands, we only implement chvt. The +iproute2 package implements over a dozen commands, there's an "ip" in +pending but I'm not a fan (ifconfig and route and such should be extended +to work properly). We don't implement eudev, but toybox's maintainer +created busybox mdev way back when (which replaces it) and plans to do a +new one for toybox as soon as we work out what subset is still needed now that +devtmpfs is available.</p> + <!-- #include "footer.html" --> |