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 :)).
next prev parent 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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