[Parted-maintainers] Bug#580224: libparted0-udeb: not installable on kfreebsd-*, depends on libgeom0

[Aurelien Jarno]

Colin Watson a écrit :
> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 04:41:50PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
>> Colin Watson a écrit :
>>> On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 04:59:38PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
>>>> thanks to your efforts, parted gets now built again on kfreebsd-*;
>>>> unfortunately its udeb isn't installable since it depends on libgeom0.
>>>> According to this mail[1], it might be a wrong version of a patch?
>>>>
>>>>   1. http://lists.debian.org/debian-bsd/2010/04/msg00037.html
>>>>
>>>> I didn't find time to investigate yet, but I don't want to forget about
>>>> it totally.
>>> I'm afraid I don't understand Aurelien's mail.  The current version (as
>>> far as I'm aware) of the parted FreeBSD patch entirely relies on
>>> libgeom.  Wouldn't the correct fix for this be to build a libgeom0-udeb?
>> The problem is that the current version which is in the package is the
>> old version of the patch, instead of the one that has been improved
>> during the GSoC last year. The current version needs libgeom, while the
>> improved version doesn't need it.
>>
>> The versions 1.8.8 were using the improved version, while the versions
>> 2.2 have switched back to the original version, which introduced back a
>> few bugs, especially with SCSI drives.
>>
>> You can find the improved version of this patched, ported for 2.2 at
>> this URL:
>>
>> http://temp.aurel32.net/kfreebsd-gnu.patch
> 
> Ah, thanks.  I remember seeing this in the past and I could have sworn
> I'd already applied it, but evidently not.  Some kind of bug report as a
> reminder would have been nice ...
> 
> I'll upload this shortly.
> 

Thanks.

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