Re: [PATCH, RFC] mke2fs: get device topology values from blkid

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>]

Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On Sep 18, 2009  09:04 -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> Andreas Dilger wrote:
>>>> +	rc = blkid_probe_set_device(pr, fd, 0, 0);
>>> Is this in the e2fsprogs blkid code yet?  I'm guessing not, since you
>> right, not yet.  I don't know what the long-term plan is for e2fsprogs  
>> blkid; keeping 2 trees in sync seems like a lot of work w/o much gain...
> 
> I thought that was Ted's plan?  We usually recommend people to update to
> the latest e2fsprogs, yet not everyone will be able to upgrade to the
> latest util-linux, especially if it is pulling in other libraries that
> can cause package conflicts (e.g. with xfstools or similar).

It doesn't much matter to me personally since my distro ;) seems pretty 
well committed to using the blkid & libuuid now in util-linux-ng.

I guess I'm not thinking too much about a world where people are pulling 
down tarballs & doing make install; I'm sure that still goes on but 
those folks are smart enough to handle things moving around, or should be.

*shrug*

As long as we can teach the e2fsprogs build to optionally pull libblkid 
& libuuid headers from the system rather than the e2fsprogs tree, it'll 
give the flexibility we need.

-Eric