Util-linux-ng

[Joe Ciccone]

Dan Nicholson wrote:
> A while back, the Fedora util-linux maintainer decided to fork
> util-linux since upstream was basically dead and not accepting patches
> back. So, here is util-linux-ng:
>
> http://userweb.kernel.org/~kzak/util-linux-ng/
>
> It's very active, AFAICT. The first 2.13 release candidate was just announced.
>
> http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.utilities.util-linux-ng/
>
> I suggest we move to this new package when 2.13 is released. Thoughts?
>   
One thing that Chris brought up on IRC. for /tools, mount & umount now 
both depend on libblkid (from e2fsprogs) or libvolume_id (from udev). A 
quick way to just get blkid out of e2fsprogs: ./configure 
--prefix=/tools && make -C lib/blkid && make -C lib/blkid install. Then 
util linux is just: ./configure --prefix=/tools && make -C mount mount 
umount && make -C text-utils more && cp them into /tools.

I definitely agree that all the *lfs books should move to this after 
it's released.