[parted-devel] Parted Stuff that needs fixing before 1.8.9

[Joel Granados]

On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 05:29:17PM +0200, Gilles Espinasse wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Joel Granados" <jgranado at redhat.com>
> To: "Parted Devel" <parted-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>
> Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 4:38 PM
> Subject: Re: [parted-devel] Parted Stuff that needs fixing before 1.8.9
> 
> 
> > Some comments on two issues.  I share them with the list now, so I don't
> > forget in the near future when I am posting all the patches for the
> > bugs.
> >
> >
> 
> > Still 6 issues to go.  I will hopefully finish them by the end of the
> > week and we can begin the 1.8.9 release process.
> >
> > >
> > > 6. [parted-devel] [PATCH] backlist md devices from device list
> > >     -
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2009-April/002781.html
> > >
> > > 7. [parted-devel] [PATCH] document that primary keyword is not supported
> on sun label
> > >     -
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2009-April/002782.html
> > >
> 
> If you want more details on 6 and 7, I am there listening.

Great!  I have read the issue again and the patch idea seems ok.

> I have tested softraid working on sparc. I just suffered a bit before to
> have a working receipt to create the partition where the machine will boot
> from after installation.
> The sh script that do that well for me is at
> http://ipcop.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ipcop/ipcop/trunk/src/scripts/disk-partition?revision=2757

This shell script seems very complete.  Thx for the link.

What needs to be done for this fix to "go in" to parted is two things:
a. the patch needs to exist
b. the test for the issue needs to exists.

For a.  One needs to create a patch using git and send it to the list
using git-format-patch.  In that way it can easily be included in the
SRCs and your authorship will be maintained.  For 6 at least I did not
find said patch, I have not yet looked at 7.

For b. One needs to create a test file in the /test directory that will
prove that the issue is resolved.  like create a softraid and then list
the partitions and make sure that md-0 is not listed.  Its not allways
easy because the test should run in a special contained maner.

If you have provided these two things (a and b), pls show me where they
are.  If you have not provided them, it would be a great help for the
1.9.0 effort if you did so.  It would save me two issues  to worry about
and I could skip to 8... and we could be done before the end of the
week (hopefully)

If I have missunderstood your proposal, pls be so kind and correct me :)

Regards.

PS: you can ask for help with a and b in #parted (freenode).  Im in
Central Europe, but I know otavio and others are in the americas and can
help you out.
-- 
Joel Andres Granados
Brno, Czech Republic, Red Hat.