[SM-Discuss] stable-rc 0.34 is now cut and ready

Robin Cook rcook at wyrms.net
Thu Jun 4 19:37:01 EDT 2009


The util-linux, e2fsprogs upgrade really broke my system e2fsprogs got
dispelled and then neither util-linux or e2fsprogs would compile wound
up having to get a cache tarball from another machine an extract it,
cast util-linux then e2fsprogs to get things working again.

CuZnDragon
Robin Cook


On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 16:23 -0500, George Sherwood wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 13:39:26 -0700
> Eric Sandall <eric at sandall.us> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > $ gaze version hal udev e2fsprogs util-linux
> > Grimoire  Section  Spell       Grimoire Version  Installed Version
> > --------  -------  -----       ----------------  -----------------
> > test      utils    hal         0.5.12            0.5.12
> > test      disk     udev        142               142
> > test      disk     e2fsprogs   1.41.6            1.41.6
> > test      utils    util-linux  2.15              2.15
> > 
> > $ gaze from libblkid.so
> > util-linux-2.15:/lib/libblkid.so
> > 
> > The upgrade path is broken for e2fsprogs and util-linux. Have you
> > tried recasting both to see if that fixes udev/hal?
> > 
> > Here is the revert of my (broken) attempt to fix this:
> > commit 784fc35b1253cd8c6f15184d96a7daa4972453b5
> > Author: Eric Sandall <sandalle at sourcemage.org>
> > Date:   Wed May 13 01:29:40 2009 -0700
> > 
> >     Revert "e2fsprogs: Depends on util-linux for blkid"
> > 
> >     This reverts commit c3ff13022ef5564b2c6dbc28226532ec7ee39a34.
> > 
> >     I'm not sure what's going on, but putting the dependency order
> >     correct
> >     breaks.
> > 
> >     e2fsprogs 1.41.4 used to provide blkid.
> >     util-linux 2.15 now provides blkid.
> >     e2fsprogs 1.41.5 requires blkid from util-linux 2.15
> > 
> >     e2fsprogs 1.41.5 no longer provides blkid and needs it from
> >     util-linux.
> >     util-linux 2.15 cannot compile without e2fsprogs.
> > 
> >     Currently:
> >     update e2fsprogs from 1.41.4 -> 1.41.5, removing libblkid.so.
> >         mount (from util-linux) now fails as it cannot find
> >     libblkid.so.1.
> >     update util-linux to 2.15, now providing libblkid.so.
> >         mount is happy.
> >     e2fsprogs is built with its old libblkid.so and seems to still be
> >     happy.
> >     with util-linux's libblkid.so as they are ABI compatible (just
> > moved packages, AFAIK).
> > 
> >     After this fun switch:
> >     e2fsprogs will need to be cast after util-linux, since future
> >     updates to
> >     libblkid.so will come from util-linux and are required by
> > e2fsprogs.
> 
> Well everything seems to be working, which is in some way even more
> confusing to me. I updated e2fsprogs (mount error), util-linux,
> e2fsprogs, udev, hal.
> 
> Only problem I had was the hal wouldn't restart unless I restarted
> smgl-message.  
> 
> So the only thing missing from stable was a fix to try to get e2fsprogs
> and util-linux all working together?
> 
> George
> 
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