[Openswan dev] [GW-C] Re: First pass README update

[Paul Wouters]

On Mon, 18 Oct 2010, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:

> | I think we got the point - so if we would be willing to use shell for these
> | commands we would need to ensure that the developers of embedded system get
> | correct instructions what needs to be configured/installed?
>
> Perhaps we could build up, from painful experience, a test script that
> fails if necessary functionality is missing from busybox.
>
> I don't mean a complete test of all the functions, but a test for each
> lack that someone has encountered.  The first set of tests test is:
> are the required commands present at all.

But we don't always know what we "need" because often embedded people replace
the startup scripts with their own - partially to avoid these complicated
shell scripts and commands.

Paul