#980127 busybox-static: Please enable the "hush" applet

Package:
busybox-static
Source:
busybox
Description:
Standalone rescue shell with tons of builtin utilities
Submitter:
Josh Triplett
Date:
2022-05-08 21:15:03 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
Tags:
#980127#3
Date:
2021-01-14 21:12:58 UTC
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To:
For busybox-static, I'd love to have the "hush" applet available. It's a
more feature-complete shell, including features such as brace expansion.

Please consider enabling CONFIG_HUSH and CONFIG_HUSH_BASH_COMPAT in
busybox-static.

Thank you.

#980127#8
Date:
2022-05-08 21:14:12 UTC
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To:
Control: tag -1 + moreinfo

Hi Josh!

Myself I haven't used hush in busybox but I always used ash. If we're to
enable hush, I think we should remove ash and make hush the only shell.
And do that in regular deb config too, - there's no good reason to keep
them different.

But I wonder what implications we might have there, if we switch from
ash to hush.  How compatible the two shells are? I dunno. I think it
needs to be verified at least..

busybox's ash is very limited indeed.

Thanks,

/mjt