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drz

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From: Netherlands

Registered: 2003-08-24

Posts: 13

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XFS on ArchLinux

If I read the announcement correctly ArchLinux now has XFS support.

Which is great... This will make me switch back to ArchLinux again.

But after browsing the repository only xfsprogs was available.

I was wondering if there was any succes on porting the xfsdump package to ArchLinux, because I've tried it myself but I got some compile errors.

I really think xfsdump is important because this package gives XFS it's most unique features. The ability to be defragmented!!

Regards,
Pascal de Bruijn

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jlowell

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Registered: 2003-08-10

Posts: 270

Re: XFS on ArchLinux

drz,

As we speak, I'm doing an XFS 0.6 install on my main box with the 2.6.3 kernel. Initially I was a little concerned about it because of known booting problems with lilo if lilo is installed to root superblock. I use a DOS based boot manager, System Commander, to boot the three drives on this machine and have to install the linux boot loader to something other than the MBR. Typically, using reiserfs or ext3 for /, I've not used a  separate /boot wth Ext2, but with these issues, I will this time. Maybe we ought take another crack at creating a PKGBUILD for xfsdump. Occasionally persistence pays off. 

Regards.

jlowell

drz

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From: Netherlands

Registered: 2003-08-24

Posts: 13

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Re: XFS on ArchLinux

These were my previous attempts at building xfsdump, but they failed...

PKGBUILD:

pkgname=xfsprogs
pkgver=2.6.2
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="XFS User Tools"
url="http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/"
depends=('glibc')
makedepends=()
conflicts=()
replaces=()
backup=()
install=
source=(ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/cmd_tars/$pkgname-$pkgver.src.tar.gz)
md5sums=('6a66fb80137d587e368db49649120eb5')

build() {
  cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver
  ./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-gettext
  make || return 1
  make prefix=$startdir/pkg/usr install
  make prefix=$startdir/pkg/usr install-dev
}

PKGBUILD:

pkgname=xfsdump
pkgver=2.2.16
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="XFS Dump Tools"
url="http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/"
depends=('glibc' 'xfsprogs')
makedepends=('xfsprogs')
conflicts=()
replaces=()
backup=()
install=
source=(ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/cmd_tars/$pkgname-$pkgver.src.tar.gz)
md5sums=('f199a2c137d9aefb3a5e12bcf205dd01')

build() {
  cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver
  ./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-gettext --libexecdir=/usr/libexec --libdir=/usr/lib --includedir=/usr/include
  make || return 1
  make prefix=$startdir/pkg/usr install
}

bye,
Pascal

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