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As both a member of base-system, and the lvm2 maintainer, I'm going to |
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go and look at fixing them, because I'd prefer to keep them available as |
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static builds. |
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On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 09:07:39PM +0200, Pacho Ramos wrote: |
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> El mar, 30-07-2013 a las 11:42 +0300, Samuli Suominen escribió: |
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> > On 29/07/13 23:57, Pacho Ramos wrote: |
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> > > Hello |
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> > > |
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> > > As discussed at: |
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> > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=478476 |
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> > > |
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> > > Upstream is dropping static libs from udev and, then, sys-apps/udev is |
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> > > currently reverting that commit downstream (even if upstream says some |
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> > > problems could appear in the future as nobody is taking care of static |
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> > > stuff there). |
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> > > |
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> > > Grepping in the tree, looks like only some old genkernel versions are |
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> > > depending on it. Apart of that, what is requiring static libs in |
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> > > cryptsetup and lvm2? |
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> > > |
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> > > Thanks a lot |
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> > > |
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> > |
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> > cryptsetup upstream installed minimal Gentoo setup and tested our |
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> > handling of 'static' and was disappointed finding them broken |
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> > |
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> > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=438998 - cryptsetup static+pcre |
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> > fails |
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> > |
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> > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=468400 - cryptsetup |
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> > static+selinux fails |
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> > |
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> > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=472692 - cryptsetup static+ssl fails |
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> > |
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> > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=462908 - lvm2 static-libs |
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> > missing library |
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> > |
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> > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=467204 - lvm2 static USE flag |
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> > missing proper description, yes this is minor |
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> > |
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> > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=370217 - lvm2 fails to build due |
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> > to missing -lrt, likely related to linking against libudev, yes the |
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> > feature we are discussing to be dropped has been completely broken for ages |
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> > |
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> > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=439414 - lvm2 static+selinux fails |
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> > |
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> > So we are not talking about removing anything that works, but something |
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> > users get hit by reading outdated guides that instruct them to enable |
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> > USE=static |
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> > |
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> > +1 for punting broken features |
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> > |
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> > |
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> |
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> We should drop that broken support I guess, but will CC its maintainers |
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> here too (they are CCed in bug report already) |
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> |
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Robin Hugh Johnson |
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Gentoo Linux: Developer, Trustee & Infrastructure Lead |
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E-Mail : robbat2@g.o |
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