On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 12:41:49AM +0100, Richard Hirst wrote: > On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 01:38:11AM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 04:32:20PM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: > > >> Make it depend on "partitioning-program", and make both fdisk-udeb and > > >> parted-udeb "Provide[s]:" that. Should solve the problem. > > > No, it won't. anna could still install just parted-udeb since > > > that would satisfy the dependency. If partitioner depends on a > > > particular udeb, it needs to Depend on the particular udeb. > > > > If parted-udeb is unusable on a particular platform, I'd take it it was never > > built/uploaded for that platform at all...? > > I didn't mean to say that parted was unusable on hppa. It exists > and probably works ok. But parted cannot be used for creating the > 'f0' partition that palo needs.
Have you ever considered asking the parted upstream author or filling a bug report against the parted debian package, for this particular feature request. I have been doing some parted work, but know nothing about the hppa specific needs, but if you explain it to me, i may be willing to add the needed support to libparted or something. > Anyway, for any arch where you are going to partition manually, you'll > surely want to use cfdisk rather than cmdline parted, if possible. > > (ia64 is an exception, as parted is the only thing that can create GPT > partition tables). Mmm, so now i know what the GPT partition tables are :)) Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
