Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > Eric, > > I would like to propose that e2fsprogs generate four subpackages for > the independent libraries that it contains. These four libraries are > used by other packages that don't need the whole of e2fsprogs-devel > (eg. krb5_workstation uses libss, qpid uses libuuid, and many programs > use libcom_err). > > Our specific use case is to help with ongoing work porting libraries > to MinGW (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW) where we would prefer > to package mingw32-libuuid for mingw32-qpidc without needing to port > the whole of e2fsprogs. > > I looked at Debian's package, and would like to propose a split along > the same lines: > > http://packages.debian.org/source/lenny/e2fsprogs > > Despite the apparent complexity, there are only really four > subpackages. For the Fedora package we would create: > > libblkid libblkid-devel > libcom_err libcom_err-devel [note 1] > libss libss-devel > libuuid libuuid-devel > > There are no conflicting package names in Fedora at the moment, except > for the similarly named libss7 (a library implementing Signalling > System 7 telephone switching protocol). > > I have attached a patch against Rawhide which does the above split. I > set up the dependencies so there should be no loss of functionality > for users who install just e2fsprogs or e2fsprogs-devel. > > What remains is to advertize the split on fedora-devel-list and > encourage package maintainers to replace: > > BuildRequires: e2fsprogs-devel > > with > > BuildRequires: lib<uuid|ss|blkid|com_err>-devel > > where appropriate. > > Please let me know what you think.
Thanks, this has been on a back-burner for me for a while; I've been meaning to do it but it just hasn't risen in priority. Having a place to start will help. :) There's a bug open already, too: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=225406 Bug 225406 - split out libcom_err and libuuid? One potential wrinkle is that util-linux may be assimilating libblkid, at least, in the future - but I suppose that if anything this may facilitate that transition. I'll look over this and let you know. I like it in general, e2fsprogs has turned into a bit of a ... junk-box of useful libraries. :) -Eric > Rich. > > [1] > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/NamingGuidelines#Common_Character_Set_for_Package_Naming > > _______________________________________________ fedora-mingw mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fedora-mingw
