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-#
-
config BR2_PACKAGE_BASH
- bool"bash"
+ bool "bash"
default n
help
- Add help text here.
+ The standard GNU Bourne again shell.
+ http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/bash/bashtop.html
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config BR2_PACKAGE_COREUTILS
- bool"coreutils"
+ bool "coreutils"
+ All of the basic file/text/shell utilities.
+
+ Things like:
+ - chmod, cp, dd, dir, ls, etc...
+ - sort, tr, head, tail, wc, etc...
+ - whoami, who, etc...
+ http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/
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config BR2_PACKAGE_DISTCC
- bool"distcc"
+ bool "distcc"
+ Distributed compiler client and server. Allows you to
+ distribute compilation of C code across several machines
+ on a network.
+ http://distcc.samba.org/
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config BR2_PACKAGE_DNSMASQ
- bool"dnsmasq"
+ bool "dnsmasq"
+ A lightweight DNS and DHCP server. It is intended to provide
+ coupled DNS and DHCP service to a LAN.
+ http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/
config BR2_PACKAGE_DROPBEAR_SSHD
bool"dropbear_sshd"
+ A small SSH 2 server designed for small memory environments.
+ http://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/
config BR2_PACKAGE_FILE
- bool"file"
+ bool "file"
+ Program to identify a file's format by scanning binary data
+ for known patterns.
+ ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/file/
config BR2_PACKAGE_GREP
- bool"grep"
+ bool "grep"
+ The GNU regular expression matcher.
+ http://www.gnu.org/software/grep/grep.html
config BR2_PACKAGE_GZIP
- bool"gzip"
+ bool "gzip"
+ Standard GNU compressor. Provides things like gzip,
+ gunzip, gzcat, etc...
+ http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/gzip.html
config BR2_PACKAGE_LESS
- bool"less"
+ bool "less"
+ Excellent text file viewer.
+ http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/
config BR2_PACKAGE_NTP
- bool"ntp"
+ bool "ntp"
+ Network Time Protocol suite/programs.
+ Provides things like ntpd, ntpdate, ntpq, etc...
+ http://www.ntp.org/
config BR2_PACKAGE_PCIUTILS
- bool"pciutils"
+ bool "pciutils"
+ Various utilities dealing with the PCI bus.
+ Provides things like setpci and lspci.
+ http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/pciutils.html
config BR2_PACKAGE_PROCPS
- bool"procps"
+ bool "procps"
+ Standard informational utilities and process-handling tools.
+ Provides things like kill, ps, uptime, free, top, etc...
+ http://procps.sourceforge.net/
config BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON
- bool"python"
+ bool "python"
+ The python language interpreter.
+ http://www.python.org/
config BR2_PACKAGE_RSYNC
- bool"rsync"
+ bool "rsync"
+ File transfer program to keep remote files in sync.
+ http://rsync.samba.org/
config BR2_PACKAGE_SED
bool "sed"
- Most people will answer Y.
+ Super-useful stream editor.
+ http://sed.sourceforge.net/
+ Most people will answer Y.
config BR2_PACKAGE_STRACE
- bool"strace"
+ bool "strace"
+ A useful diagnostic, instructional, and debugging tool.
+ Allows you to track what system calls a program makes
+ while it is running.
+ http://sourceforge.net/projects/strace/
config BR2_PACKAGE_UTIL-LINUX
- bool"util-linux"
+ bool "util-linux"
+ Various useful/essential Linux utilities.
+ Things like mkfs, mkswap, swapon, fdisk, mount, dmesg, etc...
+ http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/
config BR2_PACKAGE_WGET
- bool"wget"
+ bool "wget"
+ Network utility to retrieve files from http/ftp/etc...
+ http://wget.sunsite.dk/
config BR2_PACKAGE_ZLIB
- bool"zlib"
+ bool "zlib"
+ Standard (de)compression library. Used by things like
+ gzip and libpng.
+ http://www.gzip.org/zlib/