Andreas Dilger wrote: > On Sep 19, 2007 20:41 -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: >> Andreas Dilger wrote: >>> It isn't possible to build an e2fsprogs via "make rpm" on SuSE and have it >>> install cleanly, because they split out some of the libraries into separate >>> packages. >>> >>> We've got the current patch to the .spec file, but I'm open to discussion >>> if it is more desirable to change the .spec to continue to build separate >>> RPMs (though that is more of a distribution hassle and might need major >>> changes in the .spec file). >> FWIW, I also have an RFE assigned to me for RHEL/Fedora to split up our >> e2fsprogs packages for libcom_err and libuuid... since many >> non-filesystem things now require them. So, this is sort of going in >> the opposite direction. :) >> >> Any idea how many distros already split it out? > > I know Debian-based distros have done this for ages... > > I'd also welcome someone with rpm-fu split it into separate packages. I'd do this, my rpm-fu is still reasonably strong, though - I'm curious, is there a compelling reason to split out just libcom-err? what about libuuid? libblkid? e2fsprogs is a bit of a grab bag of things. What's the rationale for the split? -Eric - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
