#3097 closed task (fixed)
New Package: libatasmart
| Reported by: | Wayne Blaszczyk | Owned by: | Wayne Blaszczyk |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | x-future |
| Component: | BOOK | Version: | SVN |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | |
| Cc: |
Description
This library is supposed to be lean and small and thus supports only a subset of the ATA S.M.A.R.T. functionality.
Change History (7)
comment:1 by , 14 years ago
| Owner: | changed from to |
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| Status: | new → assigned |
comment:2 by , 14 years ago
follow-up: 4 comment:3 by , 14 years ago
Are you planning to push this in shortly ? If you are, I'd appreciate some more justification - BLFS already contains too many packages. If something is an essential dependency for a package already in the book, that might be a good enough reason. AFAICS, this provides limited functionality and is designed to flag up that a disk reports itself as failing. There is also a suggestion that distro installers can link against it to avoid installing on a failing disk.
Only the other day, smartmontools was mentioned - just CMMI, provides the *full* functionality, and encourages users to learn how to use it.
Note that I'm not against this per se, I'd never heard of it before. But I do think we all have an obligation to justify adding a package to the book. I also wonder if blfs-dev isn't a better place for discussion.
Anyway, looking at a gentoo ebuild told me the tarballs are at http://0pointer.de/public/
comment:4 by , 14 years ago
Replying to ken@…:
Only the other day, smartmontools was mentioned - just CMMI, provides the *full* functionality, and encourages users to learn how to use it.
That's not quite the case. It builds and installs that way, however for the *full* functionality, the daemon need to be run (and configured). This does require some non-trivial things to be done, because the out of the box configuration for the start and stop scripts do not work on an (B)LFS System. We'd probably have to update the blfs-bootscripts package also.
However, I do agree to two things: 1) smartmontools are not a requirement for any other critical package and can be installed quite easily without instructions in the book 2) There number of packages in the book is already staggering.
... better continue this on the blfs-dev list ...
comment:5 by , 14 years ago
Thanks for the link. The justification for this package is that it is a dependency for DeviceKit-disks which in turn is a dependency for gnome-disk-utility which is part of the 2.28 GNOME build.
comment:6 by , 14 years ago
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | assigned → closed |
Added new package to book, libatasmart-0.17.
Anyone know where the tarballs are kept/maintained?