ufsutils experiment (please comment/test)
Hi,
I made a little experiment to simplify ufsutils and make it easier to
update. By merging ufsutils into freebsd-utils package and using its
build environment, with recent freebsd-glue (0.1.4) it is now possible
to build ufsutils directly from pristine upstream source:
http://people.debian.org/~rmh/kfreebsd-gnu/ufsutils/
>From my perspective, using this approach has a few pros and cons. The
ones I can think of are...
Advantages:
- Easy updates
- Fosters better coordination with upstream
- Less danger of introducing new bugs (things like #646518 come to mind)
Disadvantages:
- Makes freebsd-utils source larger
- Drops GNU/Linux support [1]
I would appreciate some testing and feedback in general.
[1] I would argue that this is less of an issue these days, as UFS
support has been dropped from Linux since version 3.10.1-1. TBH I don't
see the point in doing an extra effort to support the userland bits when
Linux itself doesn't.
--
Robert Millan
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