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Re: Update btrfs-progs once again and add static output
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Leo Famulari |
Subject: |
Re: Update btrfs-progs once again and add static output |
Date: |
Sat, 2 Apr 2016 20:53:00 -0400 |
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Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) |
On Sat, Apr 02, 2016 at 03:29:31PM +0200, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote:
> Hullo Guix,
>
> Some simple patches to add a ‘static’ output to the btrfs-progs
> package, containing statically linked versions of all the tools.
>
> It's an eventual requirement for btrfs multi-device root support (the
> initrd needs to ‘btrfs scan’), but even without that I like to keep
> a copy of the static binaries around Just In Case. It would be nice
> if Guix could take care of them.
Thanks for working on this!
> The static versions are all suffixed with ‘.static’ by upstream, so
> no collisions & no ugly renaming.
>
> Together with the util-linux:static dependency, this adds some 18 (!)
> MiB of binaries—but unless I'm horribly mistaken they should never be
> installed by default, right? The overhead in build time is negligible.
They will always be built when building from source, but they will only
be installed (or downloaded from a substitutes server) if the user
requests them specifically.
- [PATCH 1/3] gnu: btrfs-progs: Update to 4.5.1., (continued)
Re: Update btrfs-progs once again and add static output,
Leo Famulari <=
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- Re: Update btrfs-progs once again and add static output, Leo Famulari, 2016/04/12
- Re: Update btrfs-progs once again and add static output, Ludovic Courtès, 2016/04/14
- Re: Update btrfs-progs once again and add static output, Thompson, David, 2016/04/14
- Re: Update btrfs-progs once again and add static output, Leo Famulari, 2016/04/14
- Re: Update btrfs-progs once again and add static output, Ludovic Courtès, 2016/04/15
- Re: Update btrfs-progs once again and add static output, Leo Famulari, 2016/04/15