[pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#807600: Which package?

Ben Hutchings ben at decadent.org.uk
Mon Dec 28 12:21:24 UTC 2015


On Mon, 2015-12-28 at 10:23 +0000, John Talbut wrote:
[...]
> I think I was thrown a bit by 
> /usr/src/linux-source-4.3/block/partitions/Kconfig which says:
> 
> config PARTITION_ADVANCED
> ..
> Say Y here if you would like to use hard disks under Linux which were 
> partitioned under an operating system running on a different 
> architecture than your Linux system.
> ..
> If unsure, say N.
> 
> and
> 
> config EFI_PARTITION
> ..
> Say Y here if you would like to use hard disks under Linux which were 
> partitioned using EFI GPT.
> 
> As far as I was aware my disk was all partitioned under Linux.
> 
> Is there somewhere where I could suggest modifications to the Kconfig?

CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION is enabled by default, even if you don't enable
CONFIG_PARTITION_ADVANCED.  You must have explicitly turned it off.  So
I think the prompts are fine.

Ben.

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