On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 08:48:57AM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
> It is supposed to be safe to replace the built-in libblkid in
> e2fsprogs with the one in util-linux-ng. There may be bugs, but if
> there are report them, and we'll work to get them fixed. I'll try to
> keep the bug fixes in e2fsprogs and util-linux-ng roughly synchronized
> for at least a while, since it takes a while for distributions to make
> the switch. So a brusque, "drop libblkid, who cares if we screw over
> distro's that haven't yet moved to util-linux-ng" is not in the cards,
> no. In terms of formal plan, probably in a year or so. I'm believer
> in long compatibility windows.
Yes, this is our plan.
This reminds me...
The next step is to move libuuid from e2fsprogs to util-linux-ng.
Currently, this library is widely used by many packages (Fedora-11):
$ repoquery --qf="%{NAME}" --whatrequires libuuid* | sort -u | wc -l
74
The util-linux-ng code is already prepared for this change and the
library has been merged into git tree.
It would be nice to add the --disable-uuid option to e2fsprogs. If I
good remember Scott has a patch for this change. Scott?
Karel
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