Demi Marie Obenour <demiobenour@gmail.com> writes:

> Busybox fdisk doesn't support GPT, only MBR.  Busybox programs are also
> often buggy, so use the util-linux version where possible.  This
> requires disabling a lot of Busybox applets, so move the Busybox config
> to a separate file that Nix loads via builtins.readFile.
>
> Signed-off-by: Demi Marie Obenour <demiobenour@gmail.com>
> ---
>  host/rootfs/busybox-config         | 134 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  host/rootfs/busybox-config.license |   4 ++
>  host/rootfs/default.nix            |  36 +++-------
>  3 files changed, 147 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)

> diff --git a/host/rootfs/busybox-config.license b/host/rootfs/busybox-config.license
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ba50b647fbfac9b79ecb29f33a36c07d3e332ba2
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/host/rootfs/busybox-config.license
> @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
> +# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021-2025 Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is>
> +# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Unikie
> +# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 Demi Marie Obenour <demiobenour@gmail.com>
> diff --git a/host/rootfs/default.nix b/host/rootfs/default.nix
> index eb6c64067091ef3802596ce581f82f322f5bfe34..aea2e46bb5998176eb6d9b8aef802ae270fdd28c 100644
> --- a/host/rootfs/default.nix
> +++ b/host/rootfs/default.nix
> @@ -38,25 +38,8 @@ let
>      virtiofsd xdg-desktop-portal-spectrum-host
>  
>      (busybox.override {
> -      extraConfig = ''
> -        CONFIG_CHATTR n
> -        CONFIG_DEPMOD n
> -        CONFIG_FINDFS n
> -        CONFIG_HALT n
> -        CONFIG_INIT n
> -        CONFIG_INSMOD n
> -        CONFIG_IP n
> -        CONFIG_LSATTR n
> -        CONFIG_LSMOD n
> -        CONFIG_MKE2FS n
> -        CONFIG_MKFS_EXT2 n
> -        CONFIG_MODINFO n
> -        CONFIG_MODPROBE n
> -        CONFIG_MOUNT n
> -        CONFIG_POWEROFF n
> -        CONFIG_REBOOT n
> -        CONFIG_RMMOD n
> -      '';
> +      # Use a separate file as it is a bit too big.
> +      extraConfig = builtins.readFile ./busybox-config;
>      })
>  
>    # Take kmod from pkgsGui since we use pkgsGui.kmod.lib below anyway.
> @@ -96,6 +79,12 @@ let
>      mkdir -p $out/usr/bin $out/usr/share/dbus-1/services \
>        $out/usr/share/icons/hicolor/20x20/apps
>  
> +    # lndir silently ignores existing links, so run it before ln
> +    # so that ln catches any duplicates.
> +    for pkg in ${escapeShellArgs usrPackages}; do
> +        lndir -ignorelinks -silent "$pkg" "$out/usr"
> +    done
> +
>      # Weston doesn't support SVG icons.
>      inkscape -w 20 -h 20 \
>          -o $out/usr/share/icons/hicolor/20x20/apps/com.system76.CosmicFiles.png \
> @@ -110,18 +99,11 @@ let
>      ln -st $out/usr/share/dbus-1/services \
>          ${pkgsGui.xdg-desktop-portal-gtk}/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.impl.portal.desktop.gtk.service
>  
> -    for pkg in ${escapeShellArgs usrPackages}; do
> -        lndir -ignorelinks -silent "$pkg" "$out/usr"
> -    done
> +    ln -st "$out/usr/bin" ${util-linuxMinimal}/bin/*

Why not just add it to packages?

>  
>      ${concatStrings (mapAttrsToList (name: path: ''
>        ln -s ${path} $out/usr/lib/spectrum/vm/${name}
>      '') appvms)}
> -
> -    # TODO: this is a hack and we should just build the util-linux
> -    # programs we want.
> -    # https://lore.kernel.org/util-linux/87zgrl6ufb.fsf@alyssa.is/
> -    ln -s ${util-linuxMinimal}/bin/{findfs,uuidgen,lsblk,mount} $out/usr/bin
>    '';
>  in
>  
>
> -- 
> 2.51.2