Subject: Re: libahdi [Re: CVS commit: basesrc]
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 02/08/2000 21:51:36
On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Bill Studenmund wrote:

> On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 
> > I was about to start a thread about something similar for i386.
> > I have exctracted a set of common routines from fdisk/mbrlabel, for
> > eventually use it in sysinst too (so that dos/ext2 partition can be
> > added automatically to the default disklabel, and we can install from
> > a dos or ext2 partition without too much troubles).
> > For now it's in libutil, it's really small. Could be moved to a more generic
> > library if one is created.
> 
> Well, moving it out of libutil will require us to bump the major number.

	Which would bring us back to bumping the major of libc?

	Its not present in 1.4.X libutil... hmm - given the only thing it
	would affect if we moved without bumping the major would be
	mbrlabel (fdisk is statically linked), maybe we could get away
	with it? :)