[Buildroot] [PATCH 2/2] package/lvm2: drop BR2_PACKAGE_LVM2_APP_LIBRARY

[Giulio Benetti]

Hi Yann, All,

On 5/18/21 11:19 AM, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> Giulio, All,
> 
> On 2021-05-18 10:34 +0200, Giulio Benetti spake thusly:
>> On 5/18/21 9:58 AM, Giulio Benetti wrote:
>>> On 5/17/21 10:51 PM, Fabrice Fontaine wrote:
>>>> Le lun. 17 mai 2021 à 22:43, Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr> a écrit :
> [--SNIP--]
>>>>> I was a bit concerned that we dropped this support, but hinestly, we
>>>>> have udisks 1.0.5, from March 2014... So, to me, it's a minor annoyance
>>>>> if lvm2 support in udisks is dropped...
>>>>> IIRC, Adam, did some work on udisks back when he was "toying" with GOI...
>>>>> Adam? ;-)
>>>> We also have a patch to bump udisks from Giulio:
>>>> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/buildroot/patch/20200217143030.5031-5-giulio.benetti@benettiengineering.com/
>>>> Perhaps, Giulio could also help us to bump udisks.
>>> I can try to re-bump since at the time I thought there were a lot of
>>> dependencies while Adam(if I recall correct) told me that GOI wasn't
>>> needed in libblock for example. So I'm retrying to bump with the minimum
>>> dependencies. Let's see if I'm able to do this.
>> Pardon, I've also noticed this Adam's patch to bump that has been rejected:
>> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/buildroot/patch/20200725230618.3640682-14-aduskett@gmail.com/
>>
>> But I can't find the reason why it's been rejected. I've applied it and it
>> builds after some adjustment without lvm2 for the moment, then I can respin
>> it if everything is ok with a second patch re-adding lvm2 support.
> 
> IIRC, there was some back-n-forth on IRC about various technical
> details, like NLS handling and use of msgfmt:
>      http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2020-July/287917.html
>      http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2020-August/290568.html

Thanks for pointing

> But indeed, there is no summary on the list... :-/

Yes, I've seen, I try to clarify the dependencies.

> If you can combine and rework the previous attempts (yours and Adam's)
> and respin that, with a commit log that explains the issues and how they
> were fixed, that'd be great!

I try to, I've already found that libblockdev fails to install its 
headers on host so udisks can't find them. It will take me some time to
do it, let's see if I succeeed :-)

Best regards
-- 
Giulio Benetti
Benetti Engineering sas