Re: partconf [was Re: d-i - priority changes]
Martin Sjögren wrote:
> mån 2004-03-22 klockan 09.51 skrev Thiemo Seufer:
> > Bastian Blank wrote:
> > > On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 01:49:16AM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> > > > > - partconf: deprecated and have no additional support over partman
> > > > > - partitioner
> > > > At least arm, mips and probably mipsel will continue to use it, because
> > > > partman is to slow and doesn't support some of the disk label formats
> > > > required there.
> > >
> > > partconf also reads the disklabels, how does this work?
> >
> > I only know about mips: (lib)parted reads existing dvh labels good
> > enough, but it fails to create them correctly.
>
> OK, so if some arches will be using partconf -- what needs to be done?
Well, the best fix is to improve partman to do the job well, but that
takes probably more time than we have for sarge.
> There hasn't been any development on partconf for quite some time (I
> sure haven't had the time). There's a looot of bugs in the BTS...
The version available happens to work for the common case.
#221213 is a bug in parted-udeb which doesn't Provides: libparted1.6-0.
The other bugs are annoying but not fatal.
Thiemo
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