Bug 285357 – sys-fs/btrfs: git branch for this is not maintained anymore and thus ebuild should be removed as it is broken

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Alex Dedul 2009-09-17 20:20:17 UTC]

I tried to build btrfs module with this ebuild and it gives some errors while building:

/var/tmp/portage/sys-fs/btrfs-9999/work/btrfs-9999/super.c:635: error: unknown field 'write_super_lockfs' specified in initializer
/var/tmp/portage/sys-fs/btrfs-9999/work/btrfs-9999/super.c:635: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/var/tmp/portage/sys-fs/btrfs-9999/work/btrfs-9999/super.c:636: error: unknown field 'unlockfs' specified in initializer

And thats because that git branch with standalone btrfs is not maintained anymore, here is a log from #btrfs with the author of btrfs:

Ideal_ ah, i see.. i'm just using btrfs-unstable-standalone(via ebuild), seems like it is not updated quite a bit..
cmason Ideal_: yes that one is very out of date
Ideal_ cmason: is there a way to build recent module without cloning the whole tree ?
cmason I'm afraid not
Ideal_ aha, i see.. okay
Ideal_ btw, no need to afraid.. :)
Ideal_ cmason: maybe file a bug to gentoo to remove that 9999 ebuilds ?
Ideal_ and also on btrfs wiki..
cmason good idea

So here it is.. I propose to remove this ebuild.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

[Comment 1 Joe Peterson (RETIRED) 2009-09-21 04:58:56 UTC]

Yes, thanks for the info.  I'll do this soon.

[Comment 2 Joe Peterson (RETIRED) 2009-09-21 11:36:23 UTC]

sys-fs/btrfs-9999 removed

[Comment 3 yegle 2010-03-11 04:56:06 UTC]

Actually btrfs-0.17 has this problem too...

make -j1 HOSTCC=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc CROSS_COMPILE=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu- LDFLAGS= KERNELDIR=/lib/modules/2.6.33-gentoo/build all 
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.33-gentoo/build M=`pwd` CONFIG_BTRFS_FS=m modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.33-gentoo'
  CC [M]  /var/tmp/portage/sys-fs/btrfs-0.17/work/btrfs-0.17/super.o
/var/tmp/portage/sys-fs/btrfs-0.17/work/btrfs-0.17/super.c:634: error: unknown field 'write_super_lockfs' specified in initializer
/var/tmp/portage/sys-fs/btrfs-0.17/work/btrfs-0.17/super.c:634: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/var/tmp/portage/sys-fs/btrfs-0.17/work/btrfs-0.17/super.c:635: error: unknown field 'unlockfs' specified in initializer

[Comment 4 Joe Peterson (RETIRED) 2010-03-13 16:17:18 UTC]

I agree - these are old and unmaintained, and btrfs is now included in the newer kernels.  Will mask this package for removal in 30 days.

[Comment 5 Joe Peterson (RETIRED) 2010-04-28 15:22:33 UTC]

Package sys-fs/btrfs removed