Re: Anyone using e2fsprogs static libs?
Michael Schwendt wrote:
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:36:24 -0600, Eric wrote:
> Patrice Dumas wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 02:59:37PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>>> I've finally been sufficiently pestered to fix this ;)
>>>
>>> Is anybody using any of these static libs from e2fsprogs?
>>>
>>> -%{_libdir}/libe2p.a
>>> -%{_libdir}/libext2fs.a
>>> -%{_libdir}/libcom_err.a
>>> -%{_libdir}/libss.a
>>>
>>> I'm inclined to just remove them rather than making a -static
>>> package, unless anyone needs them.
>> Packages in fedora using those would have been breaking the guidelines
> Sure but then e2fsprogs has been doing just that for too long as well ;)
>
>> quite badly. The issue is whether any user of fedora uses them for
>> development.
> For that I'm inclined to drop the libs and people can ask if they need them.
>
> We default to "no," right ...
>
> -Eric
If you're still following this thread, there's a patch attached, which
is relevant to you.
thanks, I just committed the removal but forgot about the provides.
Will fix up.
-Eric
It removes the virtual -static packages and fixes the scriptlets.
Non-fatal POSTUN scriptlet failure in rpm package e2fsprogs-libs
Cleanup : 2:vim-minimal-7.2.315-2.fc13.i686 555/658
/sbin/ldconfig: relative path `1' used to build cache
warning: %postun(e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.9-9.fc13.i686) scriptlet failed, exit status 1