[bug#58238] [PATCH] make e2fsprogs visible

[bug#58238] [PATCH] make e2fsprogs visible

[Adam Kandur]

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Can I ask to add e2fsprogs to %base-packages? Because there is no
e2fsprogs, there are no commands like mkfs.ext2 or mkfs.ext4 in
the user profile during the installation. Commands are in
/gnu/store/*e2fsprogs*/sbin/ and are usable. But it would be
more convenient to have them available in the user profile.

 gnu/system.scm | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/gnu/system.scm b/gnu/system.scm
index 66ca629..8e14ec3 100644
--- a/gnu/system.scm
+++ b/gnu/system.scm
@@ -913,7 +913,8 @@ (define %base-packages-disk-utilities
 (define %base-packages
   ;; Default set of packages globally visible.  It should include anything
   ;; required for basic administrator tasks.
-  (append %base-packages-artwork
+  (append (list e2fsprogs)
+          %base-packages-artwork
           %base-packages-interactive
           %base-packages-linux
           %base-packages-networking
-- 
2.37.3

[bug#58238] [PATCH] make e2fsprogs visible

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Adam Kandur <kefironpremise@gmail.com> skribis:

> Can I ask to add e2fsprogs to %base-packages? Because there is no
> e2fsprogs, there are no commands like mkfs.ext2 or mkfs.ext4 in
> the user profile during the installation. Commands are in
> /gnu/store/*e2fsprogs*/sbin/ and are usable. But it would be
> more convenient to have them available in the user profile.

Commit 45eac6cdf5c8d9d7b0c564b105c790d2d2007799 removed e2fsprogs from
‘%base-packages’.  Instead, e2fsprogs is added to
/run/current-system/profile if and only if an ext2/ext3/ext4 file system
is listed in the ‘file-systems’ field.

Could it be that your OS config doesn’t have any of these?

Thanks,
Ludo’.