Re: [PATCH 0/7] nfs-utils: Merge libnfsidmap tree with nfs-utils UPDATED

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On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 10:03:06AM -0400, Steve Dickson wrote:
> 
> 
> On 09/14/2017 10:02 AM, Justin Mitchell wrote:
> > It was suggested that merging the trees is more desirable than splitting
> > the common code out into a shared library, so this patch set attempts to
> > merge the libnfsidmap code into nfs-utils.
> > 
> > The main body of the code, copyright notices, and readme are copied
> > across, omitting the shared conffile code, and trimming unused files
> > like strlcpy.c and queue.h. The build files of both are adjusted to the
> > new structure, and the dependent nfs-utils now link to the included
> > shared library instead of an external one.
> > 
> > The source libnfsidmap tree did include some packaging files for
> > debian/dkpg which have been omitted, there are no packaging materials in
> > nfs-utils to merge them with, and i welcome advice on what should be
> > done here.
> > 
> > Change: libnfsidmap imported as support/nfsidmap/ 
> A quick status on this... I'm working on this but this patch is going
> to cause a packaging nightmare... since the libnfsidmap package is 
> required by nfs-utils which now is installing that lib... so
> this might take some time... 

Would it help to start by keeping the separate libnfsidmap rpm, but just
building it from nfs-utils instead of from separate source?

--b.
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