Re: parted unblock, and upcoming transition

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 02:03:30PM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> Philipp Kern a écrit :
> > On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 11:49:40AM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote:
> >> so parted FTBFSes on kfreebsd due to configure not knowing about it
> >> (#575007).  Is there progress on this?  (As it will block testing
> >> migration due to kfreebsd issues being RC if the package has built
> >> successfully before.)
> > 
> > I was told that this might be due to upstream dropping support,
> > thus also pointing -bsd to it.
> > 
> > I assume parted would be needed for d-i on kfreebsd too?
> 
> The FreeBSD patches have been dropped, so parted has to be ported again.
> I don't know when I'll have time to work on that. In the meanwhile,
> parted can probably be removed from kfreebsd.

I'm working on it right now.  It's not a trivial forward-port, but it
doesn't look too bad.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]