new helper function, no more linux.lo warnings, cleanup

2012-01-12 Thread Jim Meyering
I am using the new function added by the first patch in the in-progress HFS/FAT-resize work, but it's of general use, so I'm adding it separately. I'd gotten used to the Makefile warnings fixed by the second patch. We should never allow ourselves to get used to warnings. The third is clean-up, in

Re: BUG: Parted crash during kernel upgrade

2012-01-12 Thread Brian C. Lane
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 10:52:08PM -0800, David Whelan wrote: > I am running KDE Pclinuxos on a live usb stick.  When attempting to upgrade > the kernel I received this at the beginning of the process: > > While installing package kernel-2.6.38.8-pclos3.bfs-1-1pclos2011: > > A bug has been detec