Re: Updating fuse-ntfs-3g package?

[Alistair Crooks <agc%pkgsrc.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 02:43:59PM -0600, Dave Huang wrote:
> I noticed that the fuse-ntfs-3g package in pkgsrc is fairly ancient--it 
> seems to be a 2007 vintage. Is that because nobody's maintaining the 
> package, or does ReFUSE not work with more recent versions, or a 
> combination of both? I tried simply updating the package to pull the 
> current version (2011.1.15), but it doesn't compile: undefined 
> references to various FUSE functions, such as fuse_version(), 
> fuse_get_session(), fuse_set_signal_handlers(). If I'm not mistaken, 
> those were added in version 2.7 of the FUSE API, and it looks like 
> ReFUSE implements 2.6 (that said, ntfs-3g #defines FUSE_USE_VERSION as 
> 26...)

Yes, you're right - ReFUSE has yet to be updated past 2.6 compatibility,
and the fuse_version() stuff appears in later versions of fuse.
 
> The current version of ntfs-3g does seem to work (at least in my 
> extremely limited testing) with the filesystems/fuse package, but it 
> does seem like it'd be nicer if it worked with librefuse. Are there any 
> plans on updating librefuse to support a newer version of the FUSE API 
> (assuming that is the reason ntfs-3g no longer compiles)?

It is on my list of things to do, but unfortunately is not very high
up (not because I don't want to do it, but because other things seem to
think themselves much higher precedence :-(). If anyone else would like
to volunteer, that would be superb.

Many thanks in advance,
Alistair