All in One S2 Binaries questions/queries

[rc3105]

well, assuming you don't have an environment to recompile joe, hexedit the binary so it looks for joerc in "/joe/joefiles" or somesuch

edit: if memory serves, you need to change that in 2 places

[malfunct]

Originally Posted by rc3105

well, assuming you don't have an environment to recompile joe, hexedit the binary so it looks for joerc in "/joe/joefiles" or somesuch

edit: if memory serves, you need to change that in 2 places

Another way would be to check for the existance of symbolic links to the files in /var/hacks (or wherever joe is looking) at boot time and if they are gone create them. Editing joe is obviously better but the symbolic links may be easier for some people.

[SR712]

Originally Posted by rc3105

well, assuming you don't have an environment to recompile joe, hexedit the binary so it looks for joerc in "/joe/joefiles" or somesuch

edit: if memory serves, you need to change that in 2 places

ok. Maybe I try that.

[AlphaWolf]

Well there are two things about that which I really don't like.

First of all that mandates that in order for joe to work, you have to put everything in /tivo-bin or whatever other directory joe is set to. That means that if somebody e.g. didn't like the name tivo-bin, or maybe wanted to put it in /var, they can't. I just really don't like having fixed paths, its just not very clean. Now symlinks would be fine, but it overcomplicates something that I would rather be just a simple upload and unpack install process. The main reason I want the install to be simple is so that software upgrades are also that much simpler, which is pretty much the main purpose of releasing an all in one set. Fixed paths=bad. (frankly I don't know why the author of joe didn't just statically compile the joerc into the binary)

Second of all that is just another file that needs to be included with the set, and nothing else can/will ever use the joerc file.

[EvilJack]

Originally Posted by TivoWare

AlphaWolf:

It would be nice if you included a nice editor like joe, pico, ee. vi style editors are not for me

Also I would like to know more about how you setup your box. I see you use /tivo-bin. Have you moved everything out of /var? I looking at doing this but programs like mfs_fts would need to have links to /var for the logs and cache.

I've got nano compiled and running on my S2. I can post
that somewhere if someone want's to help test it out.
I might need to work on shared/static stuff to make
it smaller.

jack

[AlphaWolf]

I actually like nano best of all of them. If you can compile that to just be a single binary that doesn't have to relie on any resource files and can be run from any path, please post it and I'll be glad to include it in the all in one set.

[NutKase]

Originally Posted by rc3105

well, assuming you don't have an environment to recompile joe, hexedit the binary so it looks for joerc in "/joe/joefiles" or somesuch

edit: if memory serves, you need to change that in 2 places

Great idea!

Okay, I've hex patched up joe so it'll run in one directory.

I'll have to check AlphaWolf's criterion for submission but I still have one issue.

I can open a file but the control keys won't work... still working, but family time is going to interrupt .


NutKase

[AlphaWolf]

BTW, /var is like an ass hole. Sure its possible to stick things in there, but doing so is just plain wrong IMO.

[TivoWare]

ee is a simple editor I like to use under FreeBSD. I tried finding info of how to make a compile environment but I have not found very much. And it may not work under FreeBSD anyway.

Can someone point me in the right direction or try to compile ee for me? No idea if it will be hard to cross compile or not.

http://mahon.cwx.net/sources/ee-1.4.6.src.tgz

maybe this editor will not require too much.

[Edit] Problably no use. It stil needs terminfo and uses NCURSES

[w2kr]

I just ftp'ed a collection of modules to my TiVo that are in a .zip file.
When trying to unzip them via the unzip in this package I get the error:

$ unzip usb-2.4.20-r1.zip
Archive: usb-2.4.20-r1.zip
unzip: Invlaide zip magic

I ran md5sum on the zip file both on my PC and on the TiVo and get the exact same signature.

It appears to me that the busybox unzip isn't compatible with this zip file. Has anyone else seen a problem like this?

[w2kr]

I looked into this unzip problem. It's a busybox problem. If you look at their source code for unzip.c, they say they need to still deal with endian issues. When reading the zip file header, the magic number isn't matching due to the code not really support large endian architectures, i.e., the MIPS processor in TiVo.

I fixed the first problem, but soon discovered another endian related problem and gave up. I'll just get unzip elsewhere and not use the busybox version.

[w2kr]

AlphaWolf,
Can you post the .config file you're using with busybox. For my own personal use I'd like to make a small tweak to turn of the ls coloring and I'd like to start with your well thought out config. I'd also like to activate gunzip.

[AlphaWolf]

Originally Posted by w2kr

AlphaWolf,
Can you post the .config file you're using with busybox. For my own personal use I'd like to make a small tweak to turn of the ls coloring and I'd like to start with your well thought out config.

The .config file should be included in the zip along with the busybox binaries I have posted in this thread.

Originally Posted by w2kr

I'd also like to activate gunzip.

Theres no need for gunzip. The tivo always includes gzip in its stock configuration, just use gzip -d, theres no difference between the two. If you just like the command gunzip, you could always add "alias gunzip='gzip -d'" to your /.profile.

Also WRT color, I am pretty sure that theres an environment variable that you can use which will disable colors. Not sure which one it is exactly, something relating to term though.

[Lost Dog]

Hey Alphawolf,

The SendKey included in the binary package seems to be the one that's broken for S2 4.0+. Could you included the sendkey found in this post:

http://www.dealdatabase.com/forum/sh...89&postcount=1

Thanks!

(It's nice to have many of the commonly used binaries in one place... good job!)

[TheWickedPriest]

Originally Posted by TivoWare

[Edit] Problably no use. It stil needs terminfo and uses NCURSES

That's not a barrier. I've successfully built ncurses and a largish ncurses-based app for my Tivo with a cross-compiler setup.