From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C739C138A1F for ; Tue, 5 Aug 2014 10:30:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 11CCAE0940; Tue, 5 Aug 2014 10:30:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 272C2E07DF for ; Tue, 5 Aug 2014 10:30:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vapier.localnet (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E52133BE02 for ; Tue, 5 Aug 2014 10:30:25 +0000 (UTC) From: Mike Frysinger To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Need help with sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.42.11 build failure Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 06:30:25 -0400 Message-ID: <1999331.eJvcPo7hDn@vapier> Organization: wh0rd.org User-Agent: KMail/4.13.1 (Linux/3.14.2; KDE/4.13.1; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: <20140720124749.4edaf889@shanghai.paradoxon.rec> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart8583952.UXtZIkgMrx"; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 1497cd86-c7b4-48e9-8b80-08ba9516ccdc X-Archives-Hash: 4a6507a536834d0f0f1386f9936e8cb4 --nextPart8583952.UXtZIkgMrx Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" On Sun 20 Jul 2014 11:12:17 Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: > > Is there some reason that we continue to maintain these as two > > separate packages? It seems like the e2fsprogs ebuild could > > build/install both the binaries and the libraries, and that would > > probably prevent weird failures like this one. >=20 > > I see this in README.subset: > Oops, hit send too quickly. >=20 > I see this in README.subset: >=20 > --- > This distribution contains a subset of the e2fsprogs package; it > contains the base libraries (ss, et, uuid, blkid) which may be used b= y > other non-ext2-related applications. >=20 > This may be useful for non-Linux operating systems that need these > libraries for GNOME, but who do not need the ext2/ext3 filesystem > utilities. > --- e2fsprogs-libs was added because it provided those 4 libs which other p= ackages=20 were using and people did not like depending on sys-fs/e2fsprogs to get= them=20 (most significantly libuuid), which is not unreasonable. since then,=20= libuuid/libblkid have moved to util-linux, and the non-linux people aga= in be=20 hating on it. see https://bugs.gentoo.org/278667. deleting e2fsprogs-libs would busticate them badly. at least the curre= nt=20 situation allows us to keep the old version in the tree which provides=20= libuuid. the overhead here is not great imo (having done so for 6 years now), so= i=20 don't see a problem continuing it. of course, the libuuid situation needs fixing up properly, but i don't = have=20 the inclination to sort it out, and the status-quo is still tolerable. tl;dr: un-fsck the libuuid/libblkid situation and we probably can merge= =20 e2fsprogs-libs back in. until then, not really. =2Dmike --nextPart8583952.UXtZIkgMrx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAABAgAGBQJT4LJBAAoJEEFjO5/oN/WBGjoQAJPpTYewMplgMLMvXvxOBv2f uVacppfloQ+OkkSyJ/iinubl5SMIWMJEf62ld5Bck8DXVXlXGYQE0M+bx+L7kANa 2FHXKxi9xCwFJOO814P3ZEAttVCHge1x+7rFIeXC9VJ4eVJrQKdWNmb2R/tDJAVo UYQN1FJGrZ6NO/1MhIzqmyt/vg/65eG5DRG8kzWsXNHfYUayqK5rVDT1gPJmIZ3J u/5Z674naF1/eh9BLoywaC+Xxznb2Cm8ALMOeV2YzWJrELE8gMKApZ7nYmcKeNYV jjiT5BdoCTgdjJqo4tqFVulrWD9KxTngPYxpgbgmxSD2QLTfsNEZy46RWt5HMqc3 4f3DRPdgu4FkVWqB0F9Qfoy+4tgSTS86LegRjEQyje8E+wsiG7I4GkDhPzfLG/co gY7p0lzD1p95fHzRPRmv5R7ZEgXP3vN71I5djB1qRLiDbG9TqHzbEalZbX4kDkW2 K3WlrogepzTr+WTOgS4LdUDazQiMJAomqgu9QGBw+1eGnZZSy6TFSZ468seSlywt YfspbMAJu4dcR1hyFftwYOaxTz0sO5V+qpEbMejLclGyoBuBYXrFLpusVZVdL/Sh eIb4kPB3+40N1e5IcdF67/mECQ8KNzf2g098EJ3p05bOOy9nNMCf7O7oGR1v9Nti pZm840281BeOmQO9uKkK =BwoL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart8583952.UXtZIkgMrx--