[PATCH v2 6/7] coreutils: Import from packages feed

[Robert Marko]

On Sat, 7 Jan 2023 at 16:26, Thibaut VARÈNE <varenet at zigoo.net> wrote:
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> > Le 7 janv. 2023 à 15:06, Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth at gmail.com> a écrit :
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> > On Fri, Jan 06, 2023 at 11:49:44PM -0800, Brian Norris wrote:
> >> I need to express a per-target dependency on the 'base64' utility, and
> >> that's seemingly impossible to do for busybox. Pull in coreutils to make
> >> that easier.
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> >> Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace at gmail.com>
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> > We still need to think of a correct solution for this... coreutils is an
> > option but wonder if a better one is openssl... Actually we have a small
> > tool to handle specific decryption of some stuff... Wonder if that can
> > be expanded for this task and just use wolfssl or openssl api to decode
> > base64 stuff?
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> Using one or the other would impose (i.e. (en)force) that SSL library on this particular target. Do we want this, especially considering the ongoing conversation about mbedTLS?
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> Also pulling an entire SSL implementation just to decode base64 seems a tad overkill too.

I agree on this one, forcing usage of OpenSSL isn't ideal, coreutils
is a better option for sure.

Regards,
Robert
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> HTH
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