Anyone using e2fsprogs static libs?

[Michael Schwendt]

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.

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
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