RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] reiserfs module for pygrub

[Jeremy Katz <katzj@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 20:37 +0100, Ian Pratt wrote: 
> > here is a patch to add reiserfs (version 2,3) support to 
> > pygrub in -unstable (against cset 1.1434)
> 
> Does Fedora have a reiserfs tools devel package?

Not at present.

> Please can you add something to the tools/check directory that checks
> the appropriate headers are installed. 

What if we check instead for the headers being present and only building
the filesystem modules that there's support for on the system?  Then
distributors can ensure they have the right things in their buildsystem
and anyone else can do the same.  The attached patch should implement
that for libext2fs.

> Also, at runtime, are there
> issues with libraries being present? Can you load the library
> dynamically if required?

The libraries get linked dynamically into the python module.  If at
runtime, the library isn't present, it won't cause a fatal error (you
won't be able to access those types of filesystems, but it won't fall
over on the import)

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Katz <katzj@xxxxxxxxxx>

Jeremy

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