Bug 377531 – sys-fs/sysfsutils Please provide to add static-libs USE

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE

[Description Agostino Sarubbo 2011-08-03 10:35:46 UTC]

This packages installs also static libs ".a" please provide do add relative
USE. TIA

/usr/lib/libsysfs.a
/usr/lib/libsysfs.so

[Comment 1 Rafał Mużyło 2011-08-03 13:03:35 UTC]

Given what I've wrote about three years ago in bug 220347, does libsysfs still work ?

Yes, I know net-misc/iputils use it, but it's not exactly a well maintained package (in regard of upstream, of course - it's been on IV for how long again ?).

[Comment 2 Greg Kroah-Hartman (RETIRED) 2011-08-03 15:37:53 UTC]

No, it doesn't work, and is not supported, and I would be amazed if it even did anything anymore.

So I'll just close this out as the whole package should be removed one day soon.

[Comment 3 Robin Johnson 2011-08-03 18:03:19 UTC]

gregkh: removal of it isn't going to be easy, there are a lot of packages that depend on it.
http://qa-reports.gentoo.org/output/genrdeps/rindex/sys-fs/sysfsutils

[Comment 4 Greg Kroah-Hartman (RETIRED) 2011-08-03 22:40:59 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> gregkh: removal of it isn't going to be easy, there are a lot of packages that
> depend on it.
> http://qa-reports.gentoo.org/output/genrdeps/rindex/sys-fs/sysfsutils

Oh, I know, but odds are those packages aren't really using the library
as it hasn't worked in a long time.

[Comment 5 Anthony Basile 2011-08-04 01:52:59 UTC]

Should we open up a tracker bug to track the removal of the library from those packages?

[Comment 6 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2011-08-04 08:00:07 UTC]

(In reply to comment #5)
> Should we open up a tracker bug to track the removal of the library from those
> packages?

Obviously, or otherwise this bug should get reopened, and what has said would get lost.