From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nils Gillmann Subject: Re: Updating udisks: New dependencies (libblockdev, volume-key, dmraid, libbytesize, ndctl...) Date: Thu, 24 May 2018 19:22:51 +0000 Message-ID: <20180524192251.kf3vbag7xk65fa54@abyayala> References: <87in7c51q1.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48401) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fLvoa-0006Mp-Is for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 May 2018 15:22:21 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fLvoZ-0006Go-My for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 May 2018 15:22:20 -0400 Received: from conspiracy.of.n0.is ([2a01:4f8:1c0c:7ad0::1]:41710) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fLvoZ-0006GQ-EA for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 May 2018 15:22:19 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87in7c51q1.fsf@gmail.com> 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: Pierre Neidhardt Cc: "guix-devel@gnu.org" 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 :)).