[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] e2fsprogs: remove findfs option

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Dear James Knight,

On Thu, 11 Feb 2016 15:39:33 -0500, James Knight wrote:
> The e2fsprogs package's findfs option provides no capabilities. When the
> option is selected, a symbolic link is generated from findfs to e2label;
> however, e2label will not handle findfs since the respective code is
> explicitly disabled when `--disable-libblkid` is passed in. At this
> time, the e2fsprogs package only supports findfs capabilities when
> building its "private blkid library".
> 
> Note that the `--disable-libblkid` configuration argument must remain
> to prevent conflicts with util-linux's libblkid and an e2fsprogs-
> generated variant (see e1ffc2f791b336339909c90559b7db40b455f172).
> 
> Since e2fsprogs cannot provide findfs capabilities, the option is being
> removed in this change. A following change will be introduced to include
> util-linux's findfs utility.

Thanks for the detailed commit log, very useful.

I see only one thing missing from this commit: Config.in.legacy
handling.

And IMO, this set of two patches should go in for 2016.02.

Best regards,

Thomas
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