[Buildroot] udisks situation
Giulio Benetti
giulio.benetti at benettiengineering.com
Wed Feb 12 21:44:10 UTC 2020
Hi Peter,
On 2/12/20 10:34 PM, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
>>>>>> "Giulio" == Giulio Benetti <giulio.benetti at benettiengineering.com> writes:
>
> > Hi All,
> > during bump of udisks package from version 1.0.5(the last known 1.x
> > version) to version 2.8.4 lot of heavy dependencies have been added:
> > - gobject-introspection(upcoming from Adam Duskett[1])
> > - libblockdev(upcoming from me) => libbytesize, volume_key(upcoming from me)
> > - parted
> > - polkit
> > - sg3-utils
> > - libxslt
> > then it needs:
> > - toolchain w/ glibc
> > - nls enabled
>
> > Adam Duskett, while testing(and fixing) my udisks branch[2] against
> > its gobject-introspection patchset[1], found out that currently Fedora
> > provides both udisks[3] and udisks2[4]. udisks(1) is considered
> > obsolete but they still offer it as a package.
>
> > Upstream didn't create a dedicated 1.x branch, but considering the
> > amount of dependencies for version 2.x, maybe we could imitate Fedora
> > and keep package "udisks" as it is(since its development stopped on
> > version 1.0.5), and package "udisks2" that will follow upstream.
>
> > The meaning to keep both packages is to have different memory
> > footprints, but most of all retro-fitting. udisks2 provides
> > "udisksctrl" tool, while udisks(1) provides "udisks" tool that are not
> > compatible.
>
> > I have already discussed about this in IRC with Thomas Petazzoni and
> > we ended up to keep udisks2 to follow upstream, but udisks(1) seems to
> > be still used.
>
> I don't feel strongly about either, but long term we have to follow
> upstream.
>
> Out of interest, why this focus on udisks? We don't have any packages
> with reverse dependencies to udisks in Buildroot?
Everything started out when I've followed this:
https://elinux.org/Buildroot#Important
Following that I've already bumped at and nfs-utils is pending after
upstreaming all patches.
I've update it during last 6 months, but only few days ago I've realized
that it's not followed so much by chatting in IRC :-), this is the
reason of udisks interest(it was listed there).
Basically I was trying to find something for Buildroot.
--
Giulio Benetti
Benetti Engineering sas
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