[arch-general] extra/progsreiserfs duplicate of core/reiserfsprogs?

Grigorios Bouzakis grbzks at xsmail.com
Sun Dec 26 18:50:41 EST 2010


Grigorios Bouzakis wrote:

> Guillaume ALAUX wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> Correct me if I'm wrong but it looks like
> extra/progsreiserfs
>> (0.3.0.5-5) is an old duplicate of core/reiserfsprogs
> (3.6.21-3).
>> 
>> I search for reasons in mailing list archives for having
> both but found
>> none.
>> 
>> Nb: Old extra/progsreiserfs PKGBUILD [1] pulls a tarball
> from
>> ftp.archlinux.org. Let's remember to remove the tarball if
> we get rid of
>> the package.
>> 
>> [1]
>> 
> http://repos.archlinux.org/wsvn/packages/progsreiserfs/trunk/PKGBUILD
> 
> See my comments on https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9029
> Tpowa must know something we dont and must be using it.
> 

Most likely cause of the reasons mentioned here:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143485
Testdisk uses libreiserfs.
Maybe there should be a big fat warning for standalone usage though.

-- 
Greg


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