You might want to split out libcom_err and libuuid. Currently the e2fsprogs-devel(!) contains the shared object files (O_o). Might also be useful for non-devel and isn't really tied to e2fsprogs (for example libcom_err is apparently used by openssh, php, cyrus-sasl, wget, curl, ...; for libuuid almost any program needing a globally unique ID comes to mind).
Silvio, I agree that this would be good. It'll need to get upstream into Ted's repository first; if you have a patch, feel free to send it. :)
Er, right, we could just split this in the rpm, of course :) I'm going to put this on Fedora, not RHEL, as we probably would not make such a change for RHEL. If you feel this is critical for RHEL, pls comment. Thanks, -Eric
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This is still a good idea & nice to have eventually IMHO. Reopening, just low priority for now.
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Created attachment 332736 [details] Proposed patch to e2fsprogs.spec Here is a copy of an email I sent to Eric on this subject. - - - - I would like to propose that e2fsprogs generate four subpackages for the independent libraries that it contains. These four libraries are used by other packages that don't need the whole of e2fsprogs-devel (eg. krb5_workstation uses libss, qpid uses libuuid, and many programs use libcom_err). Our specific use case is to help with ongoing work porting libraries to MinGW (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW) where we would prefer to package mingw32-libuuid for mingw32-qpidc without needing to port the whole of e2fsprogs. I looked at Debian's package, and would like to propose a split along the same lines: http://packages.debian.org/source/lenny/e2fsprogs Despite the apparent complexity, there are only really four subpackages. For the Fedora package we would create: libblkid libblkid-devel libcom_err libcom_err-devel [note 1] libss libss-devel libuuid libuuid-devel There are no conflicting package names in Fedora at the moment, except for the similarly named libss7 (a library implementing Signalling System 7 telephone switching protocol). I have attached a patch against Rawhide which does the above split. I set up the dependencies so there should be no loss of functionality for users who install just e2fsprogs or e2fsprogs-devel. What remains is to advertize the split on fedora-devel-list and encourage package maintainers to replace: BuildRequires: e2fsprogs-devel with BuildRequires: lib<uuid|ss|blkid|com_err>-devel where appropriate. [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/NamingGuidelines#Common_Character_Set_for_Package_Naming
Created attachment 334626 [details] Proposed patch to e2fsprogs.spec Rebased the patch to latest Rawhide.
Thanks. I think that at this point in the F11 cycle I am not going to try to split this up (sorry) ... but perhaps once F11 is cloned we can give it a go in Rawhide. I hope that's acceptable... Thanks, -Eric
Created attachment 343582 [details] Proposed patch to e2fsprogs.spec Patch updated against latest devel branch.
Just note, the libblkid has been moved to util-linux-ng. I'll follow Richard's suggestion and create libblkid and libblkid-devel subpackages. We are going to move libuuid to u-l-ng too -- probably next month or so.
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I still hope to address this in F12, don't despair. Just haven't gotten to it yet .... uuid & blkid are in the process of moving out of e2fsprogs, so that'll be fewer subpackages owned by e2fsprogs at least.
Done in 1.41.6-6 and beyond.