On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Burton, Ross <ross.bur...@intel.com> wrote: > > On 9 July 2015 at 12:38, Otavio Salvador <ota...@ossystems.com.br> wrote: >> >> Parted 1.8 is very old and not supported at all. The number of fixes >> after it is such huge which makes Parted mostly useless in new storage >> and disk formats. I see NO benefit in having it and a serious >> maintenance burden. > > I wasn't aware the situation with the old parted was that bad... maybe this > should be in meta-oe (if anywhere) after all?
GPLv3 was released in June 2007 and most GNU packages transitioned to it fairly quickly, so by definition, the pre-GPLv3 version of any GNU package is now very old and unsupported. We do have a precedent for keeping pre-GPLv3 versions alive though (a good thing for those of us who need them!). What makes parted different from the other pre-GPLv3 packages which are already in oe-core? Looking at the parted changelog, there have certainly been a lot of bug fixes since 1.8.7 (the last GPLv2 version) but it's difficult to tell how many are for functionality which would be relevant to a typical embedded system. http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/parted.git/tree/NEWS RHEL 5 seems to have been maintaining it's version of parted 1.8.1 up until Jan 2013. RHEL's 33 patches might be a good source of fixes for parted 1.8.7. http://vault.centos.org/5.11/os/SRPMS/parted-1.8.1-30.el5.src.rpm As someone has volunteered to maintain the pre-GPLv3 parted recipe (and I'll volunteer as a secondary maintainer, if that helps) hopefully there would not be a "serious maintenance burden" on anyone who doesn't have an interest in the older version. > > Ross > > -- > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-core mailing list > Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org > http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core > -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
