On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 12:47:21PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:

Hi spot,

ntfs-3g is branched for EL-5, but we noticed there is no build.

http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/EL-5/ntfs-3g/

Since FUSE was added to the RHEL 5.4 kernel, it is possible to build ntfs-3g (which is a FUSE module), indeed we have done a scratch build already:

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1920739

Do you mind if I build this in EL-5?

Also do you mind if I backport from Rawhide? Although there are not any specific features we need, we do all our libguestfs testing against later versions of ntfs-3g, and AIUI there should be no backwards compatibility issues for EPEL users (partly because it's not an API and partly because there is no build for EPEL users at the moment anyway).

Any thoughts on this?

Rich.

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 12:47:21PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:

Hi spot,

Also do you mind if I backport from Rawhide? Although there are not any specific features we need, we do all our libguestfs testing against later versions of ntfs-3g, and AIUI there should be no backwards compatibility issues for EPEL users (partly because it's not

I used the previous ntfs-3g version some months ago, from rawhide at the time and never experienced issues. going with the latest rawhide version seems indeed to be the way to go. And also I think that this is the kind of package that may be updated (at a slow rate, of course and only if there are important bug fixes or features) since there should not be any incompatibilities given that the interface is hidden to the user.

-- Pat