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From: Nils Gillmann <ng0@n0.is>
To: Pierre Neidhardt <ambrevar@gmail.com>
Cc: "guix-devel@gnu.org" <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Updating udisks: New dependencies (libblockdev, volume-key, dmraid, libbytesize, ndctl...)
Date: Thu, 24 May 2018 19:22:51 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180524192251.kf3vbag7xk65fa54@abyayala> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87in7c51q1.fsf@gmail.com>

Pierre Neidhardt transcribed 1.3K bytes:
> 
> I'm working on updating udisks from the "old legacy" version (which is
> currently packaged in Guix) to version 2.7.6.
> 
> 	https://github.com/storaged-project/udisks
> 
> It turns out to be much harder than expected!  Recent versions of udisks
> depend on libblockdev, which in turn depends on the 
> volume_key, dmraid, libbytesize, ndctl and possibly more, all of which
> are not packaged in Guix yet.
> 
> What do you think?  Is it worth it?  Any alternative to udisks?

Possibly there are alternatives, but it is required by some parts in
Guix. So,

> Otherwise I'll go ahead and send a big fat patch set.

as Invader Zim would say: "More patches means more Guix!" (go for it :)).

  reply	other threads:[~2018-05-24 19:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-24 18:48 Updating udisks: New dependencies (libblockdev, volume-key, dmraid, libbytesize, ndctl...) Pierre Neidhardt
2018-05-24 19:22 ` Nils Gillmann [this message]
2018-05-29 17:16   ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-05-29 20:12     ` Pierre Neidhardt

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