Hi Ted, any good?
On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 10:39 +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 10:51 +0200, Karel Zak wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 08:48:57AM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
> > > It is supposed to be safe to replace the built-in libblkid in
> > > e2fsprogs with the one in util-linux-ng. There may be bugs, but if
> > > there are report them, and we'll work to get them fixed. I'll try to
> > > keep the bug fixes in e2fsprogs and util-linux-ng roughly synchronized
> > > for at least a while, since it takes a while for distributions to make
> > > the switch. So a brusque, "drop libblkid, who cares if we screw over
> > > distro's that haven't yet moved to util-linux-ng" is not in the cards,
> > > no. In terms of formal plan, probably in a year or so. I'm believer
> > > in long compatibility windows.
> >
> > Yes, this is our plan.
> >
> > This reminds me...
> >
> > The next step is to move libuuid from e2fsprogs to util-linux-ng.
> > Currently, this library is widely used by many packages (Fedora-11):
> >
> > $ repoquery --qf="%{NAME}" --whatrequires libuuid* | sort -u | wc -l
> > 74
> >
> > The util-linux-ng code is already prepared for this change and the
> > library has been merged into git tree.
> >
> > It would be nice to add the --disable-uuid option to e2fsprogs. If I
> > good remember Scott has a patch for this change. Scott?
> >
> Right ;)
>
> attached
>
> Scott
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