On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 03:53:36PM +0200, Karel Zak wrote: > > The new util-linux 2.22 release contains eject(1) command, it means > that we can retire the original eject package (with inactive upstream). > > The small disadvantage is that util-linux does not implement command > volname(1) from the eject package. The volname returns the volume > name for a device formatted with an ISO-9660 file system. > > This command duplicate blkid (or findmnt or lsblk) code and > functionality ... so util-linux upstream does not plan to reimplement > this command. For Fedora we have two cases: > > 1) create tiny package with only volname (volunteers?) > > 2) retire volname at all (because it's unnecessary, unmaintained, ...) > > > I vote for 2, it does not make sense to maintain volname if we have > _better_ FS probing code in libblkid and better command line interfaces > like blkid or lsblk. > > Comments & objections? > Sounds fine. Should probably add a release note about it that includes an example common volname command line and the recommended comandline to replace it. -Toshio
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