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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bsd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5224f93e.2050...@debian.org
