Andrew Fyfe wrote:

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which can be obtained from there: ftp://ftp.altlinux.org/pub/people/legion/kbd/ (note that kbd.git is outdated compared to tarballs)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

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util-linux-ng 2.13 has been released - http://marc.info/?l=util-linux-ng&m=118825777229340&w=2

The notes/comments in my previous reply still stand.

Andrew

# arg 1: the new package version post_install() { cat << "EOF"

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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" ] && $op "$@"

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pkgname='util-linux-ng' pkgver='2.13' pkgrel='1' 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=('2175a6e64ba0cf8ff05402eaee33e4b0')

build() { cd "$startdir/src/util-linux-ng-$pkgver"

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="$startdir/pkg" install

mkdir -pv "$startdir/pkg/var/lib/hwclock" }

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