From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: e2fsprogs update Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2016 21:53:53 -0400 Message-ID: <20160919015353.GA10980@jasmine> References: <87r38gn6x5.fsf@we.make.ritual.n0.is> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35811) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1blnmZ-0005Ww-I0 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Sep 2016 21:54:08 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1blnmV-00032n-9g for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Sep 2016 21:54:06 -0400 Received: from out2-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]:57482) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1blnmU-0002zR-2y for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Sep 2016 21:54:03 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87r38gn6x5.fsf@we.make.ritual.n0.is> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: ng0 Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 11:07:34PM +0000, ng0 wrote: > Hi, > > why don't we package e2fsprogs-libs? I tried to update it, which fails > with a file which apparently got renamed and/or moved into -libs. > Is there any reason why e2fsprogs-libs was not packaged? Is e2fsprogs-lib a separate package? Or just another distro's method of splitting their e2fsprogs package? Can you share the work-in-progress patch that causes the problem for you? I found this text on the LFS page for the latest release of e2fsprogs [0]: To set up and run the test suite we need to first link some libraries from /tools/lib to a location where the test programs look. To run the tests, issue: $ ln -sfv /tools/lib/lib{blk,uu}id.so.1 lib $ make LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/tools/lib check [0] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/development/chapter06/e2fsprogs.html