Hey Ted,
it would be great, if you could add that, and put it into a release.
The current packaging is a dependency hell, and it would be much
easier if util-linux-ng can just provide all the needed stuff for
libblkid, instead of the circular dependencies we have to work around
now.
Thanks,
Kay
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 15:36, Scott James Remnant<scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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