Util-Linux-NG-2.13.1

[Matthew Burgess]

Util-Linux has been under new maintainership for some time now, under the name of Util-Linux-NG. A stable version, 2.13, is now out. See ​http://www.mail-archive.com/util-linux-ng%40vger.kernel.org/msg00583.html for the announcement email. The tarball is at ​ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.13. Not build or boot tested yet, but visual inspection shows that both of our patches can be dropped if this version is used.

[dnicholson@…]

See some similar discussion on the DIY dev list.

​http://www.diy-linux.org/pipermail/diy-linux-dev/2007-September/001091.html

An important thing here is that since mount depends on either e2fsprogs or udev, one of them needs to be added to Ch. 5 if we want mount early in the chroot. There's not actually any strict reason to need mount, though, since we use the host's mount to setup the chroot.

[Julio Meca Hansen]

A 'new' version of Util-Linux-NG is available, 2.13.0.1, released on 22/10/2007

Judging by the release notes, the only change is a fix for proper privilege dropping when making {,u}mount calls

More detailed info here:

​ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.13/v2.13.0.1-ChangeLog ​ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.13/v2.13.0.1-ReleaseNotes

[ken@…]

Just a note that anybody using nfs will need a recent nfs-utils (1.1.0 or newer).

[Julio Meca Hansen]

Now (and finally after a few stages), version 2.13.1 is out and ready to test, released as of 16/01/2008

​ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.13/util-linux-ng-2.13.1.tar.bz2

More detailed info here:

​ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.13/v2.13.1-ChangeLog ​ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.13/v2.13.1-ReleaseNotes

Julio

[Matthew Burgess]

Fixed in r8457 and r8458.