Martin Sjögren wrote: > mån 2004-03-22 klockan 09.51 skrev Thiemo Seufer: > > Bastian Blank wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 01:49:16AM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > > > > > - partconf: deprecated and have no additional support over partman > > > > > - partitioner > > > > At least arm, mips and probably mipsel will continue to use it, because > > > > partman is to slow and doesn't support some of the disk label formats > > > > required there. > > > > > > partconf also reads the disklabels, how does this work? > > > > I only know about mips: (lib)parted reads existing dvh labels good > > enough, but it fails to create them correctly. > > OK, so if some arches will be using partconf -- what needs to be done?
Well, the best fix is to improve partman to do the job well, but that takes probably more time than we have for sarge. > There hasn't been any development on partconf for quite some time (I > sure haven't had the time). There's a looot of bugs in the BTS... The version available happens to work for the common case. #221213 is a bug in parted-udeb which doesn't Provides: libparted1.6-0. The other bugs are annoying but not fatal. Thiemo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
