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On 05/19/12 13:39, Richard Farina wrote: |
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> On 05/19/12 11:49, Sebastian Pipping wrote: |
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>> Hello Richard, |
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>> On 05/19/2012 05:33 PM, Richard Farina wrote: |
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>>> Why was blkid removed from 3.4.32->3.4.33.1 ? |
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>> It wasn't actually removed, it was replaced by blkid of util-linux. |
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>> Does that answer the question already? |
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> Ahh, my mistake, that's why I missed it, I was only really concerned |
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> with the loss of e2fsprogs |
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>> It was a mix of reasons: |
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>> - Someone wanted nilfs recognition which blkid of util-linux has more |
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>> than that of e2fsprogs |
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>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=390635 |
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>> - The version of util-linux seemed superior to the one from e2fsprogs |
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>> https://blog.hartwork.org/?p=1739 |
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>> - The new copy_binaries function allows us to use non-static binaries |
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>> where it makes sense |
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>> - It made future maintenance of genkernel a bit easier |
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>>> Not that I care specifically about blkid but my aufs patches which I was |
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>>> about to submit need e2fsprogs |
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>> What do they need it for? Is it needed _in_ the initramfs? |
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> I need e2fsck and mke2fs _in_ initramfs for changes saving partition |
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> support on aufs. This is my patch which applies cleanly against 3.4.32 |
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> (which by the way doesn't work at all, something about /sbin/mingetty |
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> missing but I'm sure you already fixed that): |
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Please ignore the /sbin/mingetty part, that is totally my fault, it just |
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happened to randomly show up at the same time and is COMPLETELY unrelated. |
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Thanks, |
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Zero |
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> https://code.google.com/p/pentoo/source/browse/portage/trunk/sys-kernel/genkernel/files/aufs-changes-e2fsprogs-2.diff |
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> If util-linux has e2fsck and mke2fs I'd be happy to make the needed |
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> changes, but I don't see anything usable when I qlist util-linux. |
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> Please let me know how you would prefer I proceed (just don't suggest |
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> that I break the aufs stuff up because I'm far more likely to break it |
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> than submit working chunks of code.). |
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> thanks, |
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> Zero |
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>> Best, |
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>> Sebastian |
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