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FS#3363 - Renaming of attr to xfsattr

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by James Rayner (iphitus) - Thursday, 20 October 2005, 07:21 GMT
Last edited by Dale Blount (dale) - Thursday, 20 October 2005, 11:07 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Judd Vinet (judd)
Architecture not specified
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7 Wombat
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

I was just wondering why this package was renamed to xfsattr from attr, and the acl package from acl to xfsacl.

EXT3, ReiserFS, and many other filesystems also support extended attributes and ACLs, these two packages are not remotely xfs specific.

Not so much a bug, but couldnt figure where the best place to ask this was :)

All the same, a provides attr line would have been nice in the xfsattr package. I have a few packages which depend on attr which causes a messy situation.

iphitus
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Closed by  Judd Vinet (judd)
Thursday, 20 October 2005, 22:54 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Thursday, 20 October 2005, 14:41 GMT
i think the new package has provides field, kdelibs3.5beta2 depends also on attr.
so i think this problem is probably solved.
Comment by Judd Vinet (judd) - Thursday, 20 October 2005, 19:17 GMT
My mistake, I didn't know that ext3 and reiser acl/attr support also depended on the libraries provided by xfs.

There is a provides field now, so anything looking for acl or attr will still find them. In the future, I could rename them back to their proper names, but I'd rather not do it right now -- it will just confuse people more as I run around in circles with the package names.
Comment by Łukasz Fibinger (lucke) - Thursday, 20 October 2005, 20:52 GMT
On the other hand, wouldn't it be problematic if people started setting xfs{attr,acl} as a dep? In that case, it'd be necessary to set 'provides' to xfs{attr,acl} after renaming packages back to attr and acl (unless I miss some factor), which would be kind of duplicated and redundant, not to say inelegant.

Thus, in my (not so) humble opinion the best solution would be to clean the mess as soon as possible, preferably following it with an informative news message.

Just my three cents.

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