Re: [PATCH] configure: Disable libblkid by default

[Scott James Remnant <scott-GeWIH/nMZzLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>]

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On Fri, 2009-07-17 at 10:36 -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 07:46:13PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> > Since util-linux-ng now builds libblkid by default, e2fsprogs
> > should not do so.
> 
> I'm not going to be applying these patches for quite some time.  I'd
> much rather have packaging scripts that *know* they will be packaging
> alongside util-linux-ng use --disable-libblkid, etc. so we don't break
> things for folks who might need to build e2fsprogs for distributions
> that are still using util-linux --- which at the moment still have the
> vast majority of the installed base, and every so often people do
> actually care about running updated filesystem utilities on an older
> enterprise distribution.
> 
But you didn't accept those patches I sent either.

> The at the minimum I'll want to make sure that the debian/rules file
> packaged with e2fsprogs can build both for util-linux and
> util-linux-ng for similar reasons, especially since Lamont hasn't
> gotten back to us about potentially getting util-linux-ng packaged for
> Debian yet.
> 
I've done the packaging for him, it's just waiting on him to get back
home to sponsor the uploads.

Scott
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Scott James Remnant
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