busybox Set of common utilities built as single binary

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1.37.0Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch.

Maintainer: samm@FreeBSD.org 👁 search for ports maintained by this maintainer

Port Added: 2009-03-25 22:17:34

Last Update: 2024-12-13 08:22:36

Commit Hash: dbd2ad7

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Also Listed In: misc shells

License: GPLv2

WWW:

https://www.busybox.net/

Description:

busybox is a set of common utilities built as a single crunched binary, and sometimes stripped down in features to fit the needs of embedded systems.

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Manual pages:

• busybox(1)

pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist

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1. bin/busybox
2. share/man/man1/busybox.1.gz
3. /usr/local/share/licenses/busybox-1.37.0/catalog.mk
4. /usr/local/share/licenses/busybox-1.37.0/LICENSE
5. /usr/local/share/licenses/busybox-1.37.0/GPLv2

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USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)

• no SUBR information found for this port

Dependency lines:

• busybox>0:sysutils/busybox

To install the port:

To add the package, run one of these commands:

NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.

PKGNAME: busybox

Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.

distinfo:

TIMESTAMP = 1727855987 SHA256 (busybox-1.37.0.tar.bz2) = 3311dff32e746499f4df0d5df04d7eb396382d7e108bb9250e7b519b837043a4 SIZE (busybox-1.37.0.tar.bz2) = 2565764

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Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):

busybox

ABI	aarch64	amd64	armv6	armv7	i386	powerpc	powerpc64	powerpc64le
FreeBSD:13:latest	1.37.0	1.37.0	1.32.1_1	1.37.0	1.37.0	n/a	n/a	n/a
FreeBSD:13:quarterly	1.37.0	1.37.0	-	1.37.0	1.37.0	n/a	n/a	n/a
FreeBSD:14:latest	1.37.0	1.37.0	1.34.1	1.37.0	1.37.0	1.34.1	-	1.34.1
FreeBSD:14:quarterly	1.37.0	1.37.0	-	1.37.0	1.37.0	1.36.1_1	1.36.1_1	1.36.1_1
FreeBSD:15:latest	1.37.0	1.37.0	n/a	1.37.0	n/a	n/a	1.36.1_2	1.36.1_2
FreeBSD:15:quarterly	1.37.0	1.37.0	n/a	-	n/a	n/a	-	-
FreeBSD:16:latest	1.37.0	1.37.0	n/a	-	n/a	n/a	-	-

Dependencies

NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.

Build dependencies:

1. gsed : textproc/gsed
2. gmake>=4.4.1 : devel/gmake
3. perl5>=5.36<5.37 : lang/perl5.36

There are no ports dependent upon this port

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Configuration Options:

===> The following configuration options are available for busybox-1.37.0: DOCS=on: Build and/or install documentation STATIC=off: Build static executables and/or libraries ===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings

Options name:

sysutils_busybox

USES:

cpe gmake perl5 tar:bzip2

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Master Sites:

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1. https://busybox.net/downloads/

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sysutils/busybox: mark as PIE_UNSAFE (+)

Reported by:	bulk -t

Approved by:	portmgr (blanket)

Sponsored by:	Future Crew, LLC

sysutils/busybox: fix build on non-intel arch

sysutils/busybox: update to 1.37.0

sysutils/busybox: Sanitize MANPREFIX

Approved by: portmgr (blanket)

sysutils/busybox: fix reboot/halt/poweroff commands

sysutils/busybox: fix build on armv6/armv7

Do not update portrevision as it does not impact other systems

Reported by: portsfallout.com

sysutils/busybox: update to the 1.36.1

Remove WWW entries moved into port Makefiles

Commit b7f05445c00f has added WWW entries to port Makefiles based on
WWW: lines in pkg-descr files.

This commit removes the WWW: lines of moved-over URLs from these
pkg-descr files.

Approved by:		portmgr (tcberner)

Add WWW entries to port Makefiles

It has been common practice to have one or more URLs at the end of the
ports' pkg-descr files, one per line and prefixed with "WWW:". These
URLs should point at a project website or other relevant resources.

Access to these URLs required processing of the pkg-descr files, and
they have often become stale over time. If more than one such URL was
present in a pkg-descr file, only the first one was tarnsfered into
the port INDEX, but for many ports only the last line did contain the
port specific URL to further information.

There have been several proposals to make a project URL available as
a macro in the ports' Makefiles, over time.

sysutils: remove 'Created by' lines

A big Thank You to the original contributors of these ports:

 * <jsmith@resonatingmedia.com>
 * Aaron Dalton <aaron@FreeBSD.org>
 * Aaron Landwehr <aaron@snaphat.com>
 * Adam Weinberger <adamw@FreeBSD.org>
 * Adrian Chadd
 * Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org>
 * Akinori MUSHA aka knu <knu@idaemons.org>
 * Alan Eldridge <alane@FreeBSD.org>
 * Alan Eldridge <alane@geeksrus.net>
 * Aldis Berjoza <aldis@bsdroot.lv>
 * Alex Deiter <alex.deiter@gmail.com>

sysutils/busybox: update to 1.34.1

Remove # $FreeBSD$ from Makefiles.

sysutils/busybox: fix build on FreeBSD < 12.2

sysutils/busybox: enable whois, runit and hush applets

sysutils/busybox: Update to 1.32.1

- Update to 1.32.1 and adopt patches to the upstream changes
- Enable more applets

Approved by:	krion
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27934

sysutils/busybox: update to 1.31.1

- Update version to the latest stable
- Remove CONFLICTS_INSTALL as busybox-unstable-* is not exists anymore

Approved by: araujo (mentor)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24682

Update MAINTAINER: use @FreeBSD.org

sysutils/busybox: fix broken build

Approved by: araujo (mentor)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22066

sysutils/busybox: update to the 1.31.0 version

 - Update to the 1.31.0

Approved by: araujo (mentor)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22022

Replace my personal email address to the samm@freebsd.org

Approved by: krion (mentor)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22013

Bump PORTREVISION for ports depending on the canonical version of GCC
as defined in Mk/bsd.default-versions.mk which has moved from GCC 8.3
to GCC 9.1 under most circumstances now after revision 507371.

This includes ports
 - with USE_GCC=yes or USE_GCC=any,
 - with USES=fortran,
 - using Mk/bsd.octave.mk which in turn features USES=fortran, and
 - with USES=compiler specifying openmp, nestedfct, c11, c++0x, c++11-lang,
 c++11-lib, c++14-lang, c++17-lang, or gcc-c++11-lib
plus, everything INDEX-11 shows with a dependency on lang/gcc9 now.

PR:		238330

sysutils/busybox: update to 1.30.1

* Hand maintainership over to samm@os2.kiev.ua
* The port needs to be built with GCC on i386

PR: 238915
Submitted by: samm@os2.kiev.ua

Reset MAINTAINER on ports maintained by amutu@amutu.com

Based on the new policy of all maintained ports reset
when maintaner is absent for 3 months.

Bug#226400 for science/py-tensorflow is ignored since 2018-03-06 (3+ months).
portscout database indicates that 48.94% of his ports aren't updated.

Update to 1.26.2
Pass maintainership to submitter.

PR:		219183
Submitted by:	Jov <amutu@amutu.com>

Update to 1.24.2.

PR:		209049
Submitted by:	tkato432 yahoo com
Sponsored by:	Absolight

Drop maintainership.

If portmgr@ needs to commit against better advise, two years after this was
first discussed without any motion of the upstream.

Drop a few more maintainerships along the way.

Remove ${PORTSDIR}/ from dependencies, categories r, s, t, and u.

With hat:	portmgr
Sponsored by:	Absolight

Update busybox to new stable release 1.24.1, and withdraw busybox-unstable.

Changes: https://busybox.net/

- Add CPE info

Approved by:	portmgr blanket

Upgrade to new upstream bug-fix release 1.23.2, quoting its website:
"1.23.2 has fixes for dc (more tolerant to lack of whitespace), modinfo
(was not ignoring directory component of path names in a few places),
modprobe (better compatibility for "rmmod" alias), wget (--header now
overrides built-in headers, not appends to)."

Upgrade busybox to stable 1.23.1, setting busybox-unstable to IGNORE
because it is older. Work around missing mempcpy().

Add three upstream patches to busybox 1.22.1, bumping PORTREVISION to 2.
One fixes the CVE-2014-4608 buffer overrun in LZO2,
one fixes the nc app, one fixes the zcat and related apps when accessing
files without extension.

List busybox < 1.22.1_2 as vulnerable, and add CVE Name to the vulndb.

Security:	CVE-2014-4608
Security:	d1f5e12a-fd5a-11e3-a108-080027ef73ec

+ Add a STATIC ports option to build a static executable [1].
+ USE_BZIP2 -> USES=...tar:bz2.
+ Move PORTSCOUT line down to appease portlint.
+ No PORTREVISION bump for now, no functional change unless options
 changed.

PR:		194294 [1]
Submitted by:	bdrewery [1]

Convert GMAKE to MAKE_CMD
Please note that lots of invocation of MAKE_CMD here are wrong as they do not
properly respect MAKE_ENV and friends

With hat:	portmgr

Remove trailing whitespaces from category sysutils

According to the Porter's Handbook (5.12.2.3.) default options must be added to
OPTIONS_DEFINE. This policy has been implemented only recently that's why we
have many ports violating this policy.

This patch adds the default options specified in the Porter's Handbook to
OPTIONS_DEFINE where they are being used. Ports maintained by
gnome@FreeBSD.org, kde@FreeBSD.org and x11@FreeBSD.org have been excluded.

Approved by: portmgr (bapt)

- Chase busybox-1.22.1-ash.patch size/checksum differences because the
 file was replaced (The maintainer had previously pulled the wrong file
 from the repository.)
- Add two new fixes.
- Bump PORTREVISION.

Upgrade sysutils/busybox to new stable release 1.22.1.
To see the changes, please visit <http://busybox.net/>.

At the same time, disable sysutils/busybox-unstable and tell users to
use sysutils/busybox instead.

Remove files to make room for import from busybox-unstable.

Update busybox-unstable to new upstream release 1.22.0.
Changelog: <http://busybox.net/>

Tell portscout to ignore 1.22.0 for sysutils/busybox (stable) port.

Convert to staging.

Add NO_STAGE all over the place in preparation for the staging support (cat:
sysutils)

- convert to the new perl5 framework
- convert USE_GMAKE to Uses

Approved by:	portmgr (bapt@, blanket)

Attempt to fix 10-CURRENT build failure involving strchrnul.

- Remove MAKE_JOBS_SAFE variable

Approved by:	portmgr (bdrewery)

Update stable to 1.21.0, and mark -unstable IGNORE for now.

ChangeLog: http://busybox.net/

- Add support for concatenated .xz streams
- Fix grep -Fw not respecting -w
- Fix assorted crashes and two macros

These, and the previous CVE fix in _2 were
Obtained from:	http://patch-tracker.debian.org/package/busybox/1:1.20.0-8

Fix

Security: CVE-2013-1813

Add PORTSCOUT variables.

busybox:
- add fixes from upstream (bumping portrevision)
- permit overriding USE_GCC from environment (but note that GCC is
 required due to GCC extensions that are unsupported by clang)
- actually pass CC and CXX as themselves, and HOSTCC/HOSTCXX through
 MAKE_ARGS, so that it actually gets effective
- add install conflict with busybox-unstable

busybox-unstable:
- new port, based on the fixed busybox, for the unstable 1.21 branch,
 with install conflict with busybox-[1-9]*

Update to 1.20.2. Changelog: http://busybox.net/
Rediff patches. Replace alloca.h references by stdlib.h ref's.

Bugfix update. 1.19.4 has fixes for
getty (build fix for systems without CBAUD),
mdev (error in mdev.seq handling if sequence number is >999),
modinfo (made it select PLATFORM_LINUX),
wget (fixed use-after-free on redirect).

Feature safe: yes

Update to new upstream bug fix release 1.19.3.

Quoting Denys Vlasenko, upstream maintainer: "1.19.3 has fixes for build
system, chpasswd, crond, inetd (fix open fd leak), syslogd (fix problem
with in-memory log buffer), tail (fix for 'tail: -c +N' with large N),
tftp (made mode check case-insensitive)."

Regenerate files/patch-include__platform.h.
Add five patches to #include <libgen.h> and remove that from CPPFLAGS.
Add five upstream patches.

Update to new upstream release 1.19.2.

Update to new upstream release 1.19.1.

Move busybox-1.19.0-freebsd.patch to files/patch-freebsd-upstream.
This in anticipation of an upstream revision.

Fix a glitch in the mntent.h-related #ifdef, move it
to after #include libbb.h so that HAVE_MNTENT_H
gets properly #defined or #undef'd.

Import two more patches from upstream.

New bug fixes from upstream (bumping PORTREVISION),
some fixes moved into an official upstream patch,
added patch to fix getline() related failures e.g. on 8.2-RELEASE* i386.

Update to new upstream release, refresh patches.

- Add LICENSE=GPLv2 statement
- make MAKE_ARGS+= to support port test -- MAKE_ARGS=V=1
- Add -include libgen.h to CPPFLAGS to fix a couple of warnings
 (reported missing to the busybox mailing list)
- Add missing prototype to files/patch-strnlen for pre-8 systems
- Bump PORTREVISION
- Add USE_GCC=4.2+ to avoid clang, which breaks on findutils/find.c
- Add port documentation (needs Perl5 to build as it's in POD format)
 unless NOPORTDOCS is defined
- Make do-configure build respect f.i. _MAKE_JOBS and MAKE_ARGS

Update to new upstream release 1.18.5.

Changes: Bug fix release. 1.18.5 has fixes for fuser (fix error in handling of
PORT/PROTO argument), hush (fix handling of while loop with empty body), build
system fix (was using non-portable invocation of grep).

Submitted by: sunpoet@
PR: ports/158883

Over to new volunteer; mandree@

Approved by: rene (mentor, implicit)

- Update maintainer address

Approved by: rene (mentor)

- Respect WITH_DEBUG: do not strip the binary by default
- Use bsd.port.mk

PR: ports/155789
Submitted by: Vitaly Magerya <vmagerya@gmail.com>
Approved by: Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com> (maintainer)

- Make use of MASTER_SITE_GENTOO macro

Suggested by: az@
Approved by: Chris Rees <utisoft AT gmail.com> (maintainer, via email)

- Update to 1.18.4

PR: ports/155514
Sbmitted by: Chris Rees <utisoft AT gmail.com> (maintainer)

- Update to 1.18.3

PR: ports/154751
Submitted by: Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com> (maintainer)

- Update to 1.18.2
- Unbreak for CURRENT

PR: 154312
Submitted by: Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com> (maintainer)
Feature safe: yes

- Unbreak on amd64/7

Submitted by: Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com> (maintainer)
Feature safe: yes

[1]Unbreak on 8.0 by renaming conflicting function dprintf to bb_dprintf
[2]Add memrchr() function for FreeBSD 7.x

PR: 152456
Submitted by: maintainer[1], Ivan Dimitrov[2]
Feature safe: yes

Unbreak on amd64 while here.

Over to new volunteer.

Approved by: old maintainer (private email)

Mark BROKEN on 8.x: error: conflicting types for 'dprintf'

- Mark BROKEN on amd64 - error: conflicting types for 'intmax_t'

Reported by: pointyhat

unbreak the port temporarily commenting out traceroute.

add missing file

update the port to rev.1.13.4

- Mark BROKEN: does not configure

Reported by: pointyhat
Approved by: portmgr (implicit)

busybox is a set of common utilities built as a single
crunched binary, and sometimes stripped down in features
to fit the needs of embedded systems.

WWW: http://www.busybox.net/

20 vulnerabilities affecting 360 ports have been reported in the past 14 days

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2026-04-11 08:28:37 UTC