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From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Subject: Re: Update btrfs-progs once again and add static output
Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2016 20:53:00 -0400
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On Sat, Apr 02, 2016 at 03:29:31PM +0200, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote:
> Hullo Guix,
> 
> Some simple patches to add a ‘static’ output to the btrfs-progs
> package, containing statically linked versions of all the tools.
> 
> It's an eventual requirement for btrfs multi-device root support (the
> initrd needs to ‘btrfs scan’), but even without that I like to keep
> a copy of the static binaries around Just In Case. It would be nice
> if Guix could take care of them.

Thanks for working on this!

> The static versions are all suffixed with ‘.static’ by upstream, so
> no collisions & no ugly renaming.
> 
> Together with the util-linux:static dependency, this adds some 18 (!)
> MiB of binaries—but unless I'm horribly mistaken they should never be
> installed by default, right? The overhead in build time is negligible.

They will always be built when building from source, but they will only
be installed (or downloaded from a substitutes server) if the user
requests them specifically.