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 -- Scott James Remnant scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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