Heads Up: e2fsprogs library split-out

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Mon Jun 29 15:43:39 UTC 2009


Once upon a time, Eric Sandeen <sandeen at redhat.com> said:
> There have been a few requests to split out the various libraries in
> e2fsprogs into subpackages:
> 
> libcom_err(-devel)
> libss(-devel)
> libuuid(-devel)
> 
> Note that libblkid(-devel) has already been split out as it is now part
> of util-linux-ng (thanks to kzak!) - an email was sent previously about
> that.
> 
> The following packages have BuildRequires: on e2fsprogs-devel, so
> depending on what libs they required from the package, they may need to
> shift to one of these new subpackages when they go in (hopefully today
> or tomorrow).  I'll send another follow-up mail when it's done.
> 
> Thanks,
> -Eric
> 
> cmadams: ufiformat

This uses libext2fs (for checking if a device is mounted), so no change
is needed there.
-- 
Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
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