[HEADS-UP] move eject to util-linux, retire volname
Karel Zak
kzak at redhat.com
Thu Aug 16 13:53:36 UTC 2012
The new util-linux 2.22 release contains eject(1) command, it means
that we can retire the original eject package (with inactive upstream).
The small disadvantage is that util-linux does not implement command
volname(1) from the eject package. The volname returns the volume
name for a device formatted with an ISO-9660 file system.
This command duplicate blkid (or findmnt or lsblk) code and
functionality ... so util-linux upstream does not plan to reimplement
this command. For Fedora we have two cases:
1) create tiny package with only volname (volunteers?)
2) retire volname at all (because it's unnecessary, unmaintained, ...)
I vote for 2, it does not make sense to maintain volname if we have
_better_ FS probing code in libblkid and better command line interfaces
like blkid or lsblk.
Comments & objections?
Karel
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