Re: [arch-dev-public] switch to more up-to-date util-linux and kbd?

9 Aug 2007

      Roman Kyrylych wrote:
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2007/7/19, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych@gmail.com>:
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Hi!
Today I've noticed a message in lkml about util-linux-ng.
A quote: "The util-linux-ng is a fork of the original util-linux
project. The goal of the util-linux-ng is a transparent and reliable
development that follows the Linux kernel and Linux distributions".
Home page: http://userweb.kernel.org/~kzak/util-linux-ng/
Highlights of the first release:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.utilities.util-linux-ng/347
Changes look interesting IMO.
On util-linux-ng news archive I've also found a thread about updated kbd:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.utilities.util-linux-ng/326
which can be obtained from there: ftp://ftp.altlinux.org/pub/people/legion/kbd/
(note that kbd.git is outdated compared to tarballs)
What do you think about this?
Ehm... no opinions at all? ;-)
I think upfating these things should be "a good thing" (tm) (of course
Especially when it gets rid of the mountain of patches
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in Testing first).
I've been using it without complaint since rc1.

Notes:
* setfdprm has been removed (>= 2.13-pre1)
* nfs support has been removed, use nfs-utils package
* the following are deprecated:
	- cryptoloop support, use cryptsetup package
	- elvtune - doesn't work with kernel >= 2.6.9
	- arch - use uname or arch from coreutils
	- rdev, ramsize, vidmode, rootflags - i386 specific and probably useless

It might be an idea to put a copy in testing with the deprecated apps 
removed (elvtune, arch, rdev*) to see if it breaks anything, no point in 
shipping them if nobody uses them and they're going to be removed any way.

Andrew

# arg 1:  the new package version
post_install() {
  cat << "EOF"
...
...
util-linux-ng:
  * NFS:
    Install the nfs-utils package for NFS support.
* Crypto-Loop:
    Install the cryptsetup package for crypto-loop support.
EOF
}
# arg 1:  the new package version
# arg 2:  the old package version
post_upgrade() {
  post_install "$1"
}

op=$1
shift
[ "$(type -t "$op")" = "function" ] && $op "$@"

# vim:set ts=2 sw=2 et:

pkgname='util-linux-ng'
pkgver='2.13'
pkgrel='rc3'
pkgdesc='Miscellaneous system utilities for Linux'
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
url='http://kernel.org/~kzak/util-linux-ng/'
license=('GPL2')
depends=('glibc' 'perl' 'ncurses' 'zlib' 'e2fsprogs')
provides=('util-linux')
replaces=('util-linux')
install='util-linux-ng.install'
source=("http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v$pkgver/util-linux-ng-$...")
md5sums=('b0c813ad57d04434ec7df96089f12716')

build() {
  cd "$srcdir"/util-linux-ng-$pkgver-$pkgrel

  sed -e 's%etc/adjtime%var/lib/hwclock/adjtime%' -i hwclock/hwclock.c

  # wall - provided by sysvinit
  # arch, elvtune, raw, rdev - deprecated
  ./configure \
    --disable-wall \
    --enable-write #\
    #--enable-arch \
    #--enable-elvtune \
    #--enable-raw \
    #--enable-rdev

  make || return 1
  make DESTDIR="$pkgdir" install

  mkdir -pv "$pkgdir"/var/lib/hwclock
}

# vim:set ts=2 sw=2 et:

Re: [arch-dev-public] switch to more up-to-date util-linux and kbd?

Andrew Fyfe