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From: Alexander Dahl <ada@thorsis.com>
To: ptxdist@pengutronix.de
Cc: Jakov Simunic <jakov.simunic@ericsson.com>
Subject: Re: [ptxdist] libblkid
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2018 11:48:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2737786.LE88I5qxbA@ada> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <HE1PR0702MB3804329294EDF2AF11AED68E98780@HE1PR0702MB3804.eurprd07.prod.outlook.com>

Hei hei,

Am Montag, 11. Juni 2018, 09:29:01 CEST schrieb Jakov Simunic:
> Thanks for replying so fast.
> Could you give me a brief explanation of virtual packages (or a link)?

I'm sorry, I can't. Virtual packages seem to be missing in the documentation. 
:-/

However, if you are new to ptxdist you should read the documentation first. 
It's not that long, but it should give you a good overview over the concepts.

> Yeah, I have compared rules/libblkid.in and rules/udev.in to the current
> master and it seems that our files are outdated, I will patch them and try
> again. I am pretty embarrassed by the version of ptxdist that we use for
> our project it says 1.99.20, since this is a big corporation, things don't
> really get updated as frequently as they should and I don't have the
> authority to demand the upgrade. Basically I have to work with what I have,
> but I am not losing faith!!!

That one was released in 2009, that is nine years ago and long before I 
started using ptxdist. If I suggested you should upgrade, you will probably 
say you can't, won't you? ;-)

What I found on virtual packages in the Git history:

* c211a8d9981bd3f2c0e59c39bb16ab7ca8ace734 introduced virtual packages without 
a corresponding makefile. That landed in ptxdist 2017.12.0.

* libblkid was marked as VIRTUAL in bd19a02631e16f0570b03ca68c1a97025c17c1fe, 
which landed in ptxdist 2016.05.0.

* virtual packages in general seem to exist much longer, if I read correctly 
since 2003, when ptxdist still used subversion instead of git.

* b9de6f83c3e0fa65d00749ad2f122a00d977e01a added the virtual package libblkid, 
that landed in ptxdist 2010.03.0. Maybe you want to look at that version a 
little closer when trying to backport things.

HTH & Greets
Alex


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  reply	other threads:[~2018-06-11  9:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-11  7:34 Jakov Simunic
2018-06-11  7:53 ` Alexander Dahl
2018-06-11  9:29   ` Jakov Simunic
2018-06-11  9:48     ` Alexander Dahl [this message]
2018-06-11 14:59 ` Michael Olbrich
2018-06-12  7:14   ` Jakov Simunic
2018-06-12  9:32     ` Michael Olbrich
2018-06-12 11:14       ` Jakov Simunic

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