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

[Joel Granados]

On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 07:41:11PM +0200, Joel Granados wrote:
> 
> 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>
...
> > 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.

Seems like I misunderstood your email.  I thought you wanted to post a
patch.  I will continue to address 6. and 7. while using the info you
posted.

Regards.

-- 
Joel Andres Granados
Brno, Czech Republic, Red Hat.