Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 22:52:03 +0100 From: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: TESTERS WANTED: e2fsprogs port update Message-ID: <20031228215203.GA6026@merlin.emma.line.org>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Whoops - I've hit a Gnus bug that trashed the previous signature. Retrying with mutt. Hello, the e2fsprogs port has not been looked after in a long time, and so it does not know about ext3fs, making it impossible to mount ext3fs file systems under FreeBSD that need journal recovery without booting Linux. I have updated the port to the current BK state of e2fsprogs, hacked the BK version of e2fsprogs to support FreeBSD and tested it a bit (e2fsck =2D -f on my ext2 and ext3 file systems), successfully, on FreeBSD 5-CURRENT and 4-STABLE, either one checked out after 2003-12-27. I need testers of the new port, particularly from FreeBSD versions that are not bleeding edge and from non-i386 architectures. The port is available at http://mandree.home.pages.de/freebsd/e2fsprogs/ installation instructions are also at that page. You'll have 5 kB of direct download for the shar files and 3.2 MB of indirect downloads (when typing "make fetch" from the new port directory) for the tarball and patch. I have sent off the patches to the upstream maintainer, Theodore Y. Ts'o, but no current upstream release with usable FreeBSD exists at the time of this writing. Your feedback will be needed to convince the upstream maintainer to take the FreeBSD patches. Reference: the e2fsprogs home pages is at http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/ Thanks in advance for your help. - -- Matthias Andree Encrypt your mail: my GnuPG key ID is 0x052E7D95 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/71B9vmGDOQUufZURAvyjAJ9WKfEnLfMqqcnMYL94RLpYAzigIgCgqIG6 72NoSBBaOka3M+IeOpwezo4= =VPAY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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