On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Burton, Ross wrote:
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> On 9 July 2015 at 12:38, Otavio Salvador wrote:
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>> 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 ha
On 9 July 2015 at 12:38, Otavio Salvador 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 t
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> From: alexander.kana...@linux.intel.com
> [mailto:alexander.kana...@linux.intel.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2015 7:33 PM
> To: Lei, Maohui
> Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
> Subject: Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] parted_1.8.6.bb: add parted that not GPLv3
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>
On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 8:33 AM, wrote:
>> Add parted-1.8.6 which is not GPLv3.
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> I have to say, I still can't support having this in oe-core. Providing
> alternatives to GPLv3 software is fine, but not when the 'alternative' is
> a very old, unsupported version of the same software, which inevi
> Add parted-1.8.6 which is not GPLv3.
I have to say, I still can't support having this in oe-core. Providing
alternatives to GPLv3 software is fine, but not when the 'alternative' is
a very old, unsupported version of the same software, which inevitably
brings issues in functionality and maintena
Add parted-1.8.6 which is not GPLv3.
Signed-off-by: Lei Maohui
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.../parted-1.8.6/1000parted-1.8.6-warnings1.patch | 17 ++
.../1001parted-1.8.6-notransname1.patch| 45
.../1002parted-1.8.6-off-by-one1.patch | 31 +++
.../1003parted-1.8.6-p