[arch-dev-public] util-linux, e2fsprogs: libuuid, libblkid. What is best to do?
Jan de Groot
jan at jgc.homeip.net
Sat Aug 1 06:58:21 EDT 2009
On Sat, 2009-08-01 at 12:52 +0200, Jan de Groot wrote:
> I'm looking at updating hal, which needs the new libblkid that is
> included in util-linux. This library replaces the one inside e2fsprogs.
> Now we have some nice dependency loop:
>
> e2fsprogs contains libuuid
> e2fsprogs depends on libblkid
> libblkid depends on libuuid (optional, but default)
>
Yay for keeping up2date... two weeks ago, there was a new release of
util-linux-ng with this in the releasenotes:
libuuid, uuidgen(1) and uuidd(8):
- the libuuid library has been moved from e2fsprogs to util-linux-ng
This solves all issues and makes it possible to update without
problems :)
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