Bug#181975: di-utils-mkfs: failure with unpartitioned hard drive

[Oskar Liljeblad <oskar@osk.mine.nu>]

Package: di-utils-mkfs
Version: 0.16
Severity: normal

Running "Create a file system" (di-utils-mkfs) on a drive
with no partitions causes this error:

  di-utils-mkfs's postinst exited with status 5120

The fix is either to tell the user that there are no partitions,
or (IMHO the preferred way for experts) allow the user to create
a file system on the whole disk. Theoretical (untested) fix
below.

Regards,

Oskar (oskar@osk.mine.nu)

-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Kernel Version: Linux oskar 2.4.19 #4 Mon Oct 28 06:49:23 CET 2002 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux

diff -u di-utils-mkfs.postinst.v0 di-utils-mkfs.postinst
--- di-utils-mkfs.postinst.v0   2003-02-21 23:13:27.000000000 +0100
+++ di-utils-mkfs.postinst      2003-02-21 23:15:01.000000000 +0100
@@ -39,6 +39,9 @@
         PARTS="$P"
     fi
 done
+if [ "$PARTS" = "" -a "$ARCH" = "i386" ]; then
+    PARTS=$(for i in /dev/discs/*/disc; do echo -n "$i, "; done)
+fi
 PARTS=`echo "$PARTS" | sed 's/, $//'`
 
 db_subst di-utils-mkfs/which-partition PARTITIONS $PARTS