Re: Updating udisks: New dependencies (libblockdev, volume-key, dmraid, libbytesize, ndctl...)

[Nils Gillmann]

Pierre Neidhardt transcribed 1.3K bytes:
> 
> I'm working on updating udisks from the "old legacy" version (which is
> currently packaged in Guix) to version 2.7.6.
> 
>       https://github.com/storaged-project/udisks
> 
> It turns out to be much harder than expected!  Recent versions of udisks
> depend on libblockdev, which in turn depends on the 
> volume_key, dmraid, libbytesize, ndctl and possibly more, all of which
> are not packaged in Guix yet.
> 
> What do you think?  Is it worth it?  Any alternative to udisks?

Possibly there are alternatives, but it is required by some parts in
Guix. So,

> Otherwise I'll go ahead and send a big fat patch set.

as Invader Zim would say: "More patches means more Guix!" (go for it :)).