Bug#573891: kFreeBSD partitioning fails

[Miroslav Kure <kurem@upcase.inf.upol.cz>]

On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 09:12:45PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> 
> parted_server: Read command: CHANGE_FILE_SYSTEM
> parted_server: Opening outfifo
> parted_server: 
> command_change_file_system(26740385280-30005821439,freebsd-ufs)
> parted_server: partition_with_id(26740385280-30005821439)
> parted_server: Filesystem freebsd-ufs not found, let's see if it is a flag
> parted_server: Bad file system or flag type: freebsd-ufs
> parted_server: Line 1723. CRITICAL ERROR!!!  EXITING.

I did some investigation of this issue and I believe it is in fact
caused by parted - version 1.8.8 that was used until recently contains
some kFreeBSD patches under debian/patches, while the current version
in unstable 2.2 does not. The patches are not integrated upstream
either...

Cheers
-- 
Miroslav Kure