linux-kernel - Re: util-linux: orphan

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Message-ID: <20061227191824.GC17785@petra.dvoda.cz>
Date:	Wed, 27 Dec 2006 20:18:24 +0100
From:	Karel Zak <kzak@...hat.com>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Henne Vogelsang <hvogel@...e.de>,
	Olaf Hering <olh@...e.de>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: util-linux: orphan

On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 07:39:47PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 December 2006 19:15, Karel Zak wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 03:46:10AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > On Monday 18 December 2006 08:17, Karel Zak wrote:
> > > >         - remove FS/device detection code
> > > >           (libblkid from e2fsprogs or libvolumeid is replacement)
> > > 
> > > I saw that the current Fedora already dynamically links /bin/mount
> > > against /usr/lib/libblkid.so. 
> > 
> >  Sorry, but it's nonsense.
> > 
> >  $ grep -r %{_root_libdir}/libblkid.so *
> > 
> >  devel/e2fsprogs.spec:%{_root_libdir}/libblkid.so.*
> 
> Right, please accept my apologies for spreading confusion about this.

 No problem ;-)

> I currently don't have access to the machine that broke, so I could
> not check the exact problem, and must have misremembered the bug.
> 
> > > This obviously does not work if /usr is a separate partition that
> > > needs to be mounted with /bin/mount.
> > 
> >  Yes, I have /usr on a separate partition for many years :-)
> >
> > > I'd suggest that you make sure that mount always gets statically linked
> > > against libblkid to avoid these problems.
> > 
> >  It's dynamically linked in many distributions without a problem.
> 
> The problem that I saw was because of selinux going wild. Statically linking

 Yes, I remember the bug (or bugs). Fixed now.

> would have avoided the problem for me, but I guess this is just one
> more reason for me to disable selinux and be done with it.

 Frankly, it wasn't always easy to use SeLinux in previous FC
 releases, but there is huge progress and I think it's much better in
 FC6.

    Karel

-- 
 Karel Zak  <kzak@...hat.com>
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