Re: Downloading 1.37.0 from main page gives the 27 September 2024 -- BusyBox 1.37.0 (unstable) unpatched bz2 file??

On 20 Apr 2026 at 14:28, Roberto A. Foglietta wrote:

From:           	"Roberto A. Foglietta" 
<[email protected]>
Date sent:      	Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:28:10 +0200
Subject:        	Re: Downloading 1.37.0 from main page gives the 
27 September 2024 --
	BusyBox 1.37.0 (unstable) unpatched bz2 file??
To:             	[email protected]
Copies to:      	busybox <[email protected]>

> On Mon, 20 Apr 2026 at 13:15, Michael D. Setzer II <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > On 20 Apr 2026 at 9:53, Roberto A. Foglietta wrote:
> >
> > From:                   "Roberto A. Foglietta"
> > <[email protected]>
> > Date sent:              Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:53:41 +0200
> > Subject:                Re: Downloading 1.37.0 from main page gives the
> > 27 September 2024 --
> >         BusyBox 1.37.0 (unstable) unpatched bz2 file??
> > To:                     [email protected]
> > Copies to:              busybox <[email protected]>
> >
> > > On Mon, 20 Apr 2026 at 08:39, Michael D. Setzer II via busybox
> > > <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > 27 September 2024 -- BusyBox 1.37.0 (unstable)
> > > > Just downloaded from main page.
> > >
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > >  Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor (Retired)
> > >
> > >
> > > Asking the same question many times and in the same manner doesn't
> > > help. In the meantime you can refer to this repository, as long as it
> > > would collect and patches and bugfixes is expected that all those
> > > changes will go into uchaosys branch (check the uchaosys project for
> > > knowing the current commit HEAD in use).
> 
> > Found this link, but it fails.
> > git clone https://github.com/<<username>>/uchaosbox.git
> > tried with my github user name and password
> >
> > git clone https://github.com/msetzerii/uchaosbox.git
> > Cloning into 'uchaosbox'...
> > remote: Invalid username or token. Password authentication is not
> > supported for Git operations.
> > fatal: Authentication failed for
> > 'https://github.com/msetzerii/uchaosbox.git/'
> > So is there a special username to use? Prompted for password,
> > buth then failed.
> 
> https://github.com/robang74/busybox/tree/uchaosys
> 
> https://github.com/robang74/uchaosys (it uses busybox)
> 
> Best regards, R-

I'm at a total loss?
/b is the latest snap
/R is robang74 setup

20168	./b
20168	./b/busybox

Almost twice the size?
39936	./R
39936	./R/busybox

Comparison of just first character
# cut -b1 <diff-busybox-20260413.tar.bz2-busyboxR | sort | uniq -c
    140  
 185837 +
   1806 -
   1680 @
    419 B
   1666 d

So, robang74 has 185837 additional lines ahd 1806 lines removed.

Strange thing is that with my .config file those difference result in 
basically the same results.
 cmp -l busybox-1.38 busybox-1.38R 
   809 177 151
   810  13 306
   812 175 242
   813 131 157
   814   3 111
   815 256 262
   816 147 174
   817 135  16
   818  11 142
   819  76 250
   820 314 144
   821 243 227
   822 173 300
   823 345 262
   824  37 147
   825 214  40
   826 132  60
   827 166 215
   828  27 137
479033  61  62
479034  63  60
479036  60  62
479037  71  61
479039  60  61
479040  70  61
479042  62  64
479043  63  62

Comparing the 1.37 and 1.38 
cmp -l busybox-1.37 busybox-1.38 | wc -l
cmp: EOF on ‘busybox-1.37’ after byte 468376
445339

So, I'll stick to using the busybox 1.38 git since it is well beyond my 
understanding. If it ain't broke don't fix it, but if it is broke needs to 
be fixed.


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