Subject: Re: [bug#41247] [PATCH 0/5] Fix and update udisks

From: Brice Waegeneire <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 14 May 2020 13:50:50 +0000

Hello Efraim,

On 2020-05-14 08:25, Efraim Flashner wrote:
> $ guix gc --references 
> /gnu/store/g6pv8jfhi3m6a2wnvlwjcx4i3hjihnra-libblockdev-2.23 | grep xfs
> 
> it doesn't look like it actually links in xfs support. I see from the
> configure output that the FS plugin is built and installed in %out/lib.
> Does it work on xfs formatted partitions without linking to xfsprogs?

Listing all the references, 'btrfs-progs', 'dosfstools' and 'mdam' are 
also
not linked but are present as inputs.

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/gnu/store/01b4w3m6mp55y531kyi1g8shh722kwqm-gcc-7.5.0-lib
/gnu/store/33y7wsvfh3i6mq9h7812pwagj8p2lrfd-libyaml-0.2.4
/gnu/store/35afkywncrr5xsb4cxcljf6rpjcb7f61-gmp-6.2.0
/gnu/store/5jf395qa3v4amdi60850rz2a15zlsrza-mpfr-4.0.2
/gnu/store/5ydgg6rd9vqw0hf4a7ji65y4yw3ja665-lvm2-2.03.09
/gnu/store/7ykddq56ssyqm1win3jlxm3ran94kq3q-libbytesize-2.2
/gnu/store/9g1nq7qf5mkhbyjcyc0d7g9j02x3sdl2-argon2-20190702
/gnu/store/9rk1sdzb9lqsi38knfi2pq5gqxfxi8d0-libgpg-error-1.37
/gnu/store/9rvf68qxkq14sxajdp4gf8qqa026bjj2-kmod-26
/gnu/store/a45p39mgqvfd8kjwibyr0q42k1mw7gmf-util-linux-2.35.1-lib
/gnu/store/bjp2vcbdsmckv2b4f69bci1z9n0i43b6-eudev-3.2.9
/gnu/store/cbrx0nl7qwrz1j3r19ylahrgilyr1n83-json-c-0.13.1
/gnu/store/dh5klm7h2nh930lj3kgiaqkqd8vpvjaa-parted-3.3
/gnu/store/dp0q63a7ykqwsfwn1c1wx81ak51l0vp3-ndctl-68
/gnu/store/fa6wj5bxkj5ll1d7292a70knmyl7a0cr-glibc-2.31
/gnu/store/g6pv8jfhi3m6a2wnvlwjcx4i3hjihnra-libblockdev-2.23
/gnu/store/gfpgqvwrixhf3sf1bnzsfxzvld0nd8b7-nss-3.50
/gnu/store/j9agmxk8iyjba4wvvam056s4n3phlg6h-gpgme-1.13.1
/gnu/store/n2r0q34y5bjj3vd65p6nb64dghbgka01-volume-key-0.3.12
/gnu/store/p2hkmh8rfw9qaspxlf0yd4qp1hzj0bc8-cryptsetup-2.2.2
/gnu/store/q7hba8fqpix98qwcpf64izsf4wqhv1ij-libassuan-2.5.3
/gnu/store/qc3k3kd458pgrqsc7ih641160q81npwq-libgcrypt-1.8.5
/gnu/store/qvahafxrr2mcl4anjxdkkprrvd4k0xjj-pcre2-10.34
/gnu/store/r7k859hmcnkazf492fasqvk25jflnfk6-xz-5.2.4
/gnu/store/rmbxm1fg47b347kv1h5fb2w04nxqbsj6-glib-2.62.6
/gnu/store/rykm237xkmq7rl1p0nwass01p090p88x-zlib-1.2.11
/gnu/store/sdh81ijcxqlkns1c48lsdripfj34fmwq-dmraid-1.0.0.rc16-3
/gnu/store/vqajm09by8dxxfl1fd7n45blfhzyg1gm-nspr-4.25
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libblockdev seems to use the commands provided by those packages[0].
They, including 'xfs', should be in the propagated-inputs field, right?

[0]: 
https://github.com/storaged-project/libblockdev/blob/master/src/plugins/fs/xfs.c#L45-L51

- Brice