EPEL 5 build of ntfs-3g

[Manuel Wolfshant]

On 02/02/2010 01:14 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 12:47:21PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>   
>> Hi spot,
>>
>> ntfs-3g is branched for EL-5, but we noticed there is no build.
>>
>> http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/EL-5/ntfs-3g/
>>
>> Since FUSE was added to the RHEL 5.4 kernel, it is possible to build
>> ntfs-3g (which is a FUSE module), indeed we have done a scratch build
>> already:
>>
>> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1920739
>>
>> Do you mind if I build this in EL-5?
>>
>> Also do you mind if I backport from Rawhide?  Although there are not
>> any specific features we need, we do all our libguestfs testing
>> against later versions of ntfs-3g, and AIUI there should be no
>> backwards compatibility issues for EPEL users (partly because it's not
>> an API and partly because there is no build for EPEL users at the
>> moment anyway).
>>     
>
> Any thoughts on this?
>   

If it works, definitely +1 from me. Especially as the latest centosplus 
kernel does not include support for ntfs.