From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Tremer To: development@lists.ipfire.org Subject: Re: Question regarding update of util-macros Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2021 12:24:55 +0100 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============1904850335259278447==" List-Id: --===============1904850335259278447== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello, > On 22 Jun 2021, at 17:38, Adolf Belka wrote: >=20 > Hi Michael, >=20 > On 22/06/2021 14:24, Michael Tremer wrote: >> Hello, >> I do not know what would require this. >> You can try commenting it out in make.sh and see if the build runs through= . If anything, it should be a build time dependency. > Good idea. I tried that and there was no problem with the build. >=20 > Searching in IPFire git I found that util-macros was originally introduced = as a build dependency for pciaccess which was a dependency of libvirt. >=20 > Looks like the updates of pciaccess have removed the util-macros build depe= ndency, although I could not find any mention in the Changelog of pciaccess. >=20 > I would propose a patch to remove this from IPFire. Let me know if you agre= e and I will submit a patch. It looks like they dropped that dependency when they changed from autotools t= o meson. -Michael >=20 > Regards, > Adolf. >> Best, >> -Michael >>> On 21 Jun 2021, at 13:57, Adolf Belka wrote: >>>=20 >>> Hi everyone, >>>=20 >>> I noted that util-macros is from 2014 and a version from 2021 is availabl= e. >>>=20 >>> So I was going to update it but realised that it is a package related to = Xorg, which as far as I am aware is not used on IPFire. util-macros is an add= on but the rootfile is in the common section of the folder structure and has = all the files commented out, so it looks like it is installed to enable other= packages to be installed that expect it to be present. >>>=20 >>>=20 >>> I just wanted to check that this package is actually still required to be= in IPFire before I spend time trying to update it. >>>=20 >>>=20 >>> Regards, >>>=20 >>> Adolf. >>>=20 --===============1904850335259278447==--