The NSLU2 and the Kindle both use ARM cpu cores. ipk was specially compiled for the Kindle, but I guess not. This is a huge FAIL for bind mounts UNLESS used from a non-intrinsic shell. Unfortunately ipkg uses the intrinsic version.īecause the Kindle 4 is missing bash from its busybox, it would be possible to run an non-intrinsic bash shell, and then put a non-intrinsic wget earlier in the search path. The ONLY way to execute a non-intrinsic wget is with a fully-qualified path to the replacement wget. the bin directories would be a lot cleaner with all those busybox symlinks deleted. This also means that all those symlinks to busybox in the main partition are obsolete because they are not used for busybox intrinsic commands. That is how I finally discovered the busybox intrinsic problem. Even though no wget file or symlinks exists, the wget command still executes the busybox version.īefore that, I tried bind mounts, and even replacing the root symlink with a physical wget file, before renaming the root symlink from wget to wget-old. In fact, I even tried "mv /usr/bin/wget /usr/bin/wget-old" and a "find / | grep wget" only finds "/usr/bin/wget-old".
It looks like ipkg does not work on the kindle 4 because it uses parameters not supported by the busybox wget.Īs long as the kindle busybox is the parent of the current process, busybox handles all commands built into busybox (including wget) as intrinsics.
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