On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 04:38:15PM +0200, Joel Granados wrote: > Some comments on two issues. I share them with the list now, so I don't > forget in the near future when I am posting all the patches for the > bugs. > > > On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 11:28:15AM +0200, Joel Granados wrote: > > Hello list. > > > > In my continuing effort to make 1.8.9 happen I have decided to make a > > summary of what needs to be fixed for 1.8.9. The idea is for 1.8.9 to > > be released when all these issues have been resolved. If I miss any > > bugs issues that are important to someone, feel free to scream at me :) > > > > Stuff for 1.8.9 > > 1. Do not clobber the BootCode in GPT PMBRs > > - > > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2008-December/002473.html > > - http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-parted/2008-12/msg00015.html > > > > 2. Patch: Fix gpt_read to read all of the partition entries correctly > > - > > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2008-December/002465.html > > - > > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/attachments/20081202/b7c0528d/attachment.txt > > > > 3. [PATCH] fix for mklabel in parted > > - > > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2009-January/002739.html > > > > 4. [parted-devel] Error on resize FAT16 with 64k cluster > > - http://parted.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/ticket/207 > > * This one needs testing. There is a nice test in the link above. > > This turned out to be a reproducible error. I spent a considerable > amount of time trying to come up with a test related to this issue. My > approach was to create a device-mapper device and try to reproduce what > I had seen in test with "real" devices. Since parted has a different > code path with device-mapper devices, this was not possible. > With this in mind I decided not to create any test for this patch. > > > > > 5. Unable to satisfy all constraints on the partition after fix > > partition order with fdisk > > - http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-parted/2009-03/msg00009.html > > * This one needs testing. The link above contains info. > > I could not reproduce this one. To the best of my knowledge it should > already be addressed as the reporter is using a parted version that is > oldish. > > > Still 6 issues to go. I will hopefully finish them by the end of the > week and we can begin the 1.8.9 release process.
Sorry 1.9.0 > > > > > 6. [parted-devel] [PATCH] backlist md devices from device list > > - > > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2009-April/002781.html > > > > 7. [parted-devel] [PATCH] document that primary keyword is not supported on > > sun label > > - > > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2009-April/002782.html > > > > 8. New Italian PO file for 'parted' (version 1.8.8) > > - http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-parted/2009-01/msg00010.html > > * This one needs no action. bootstrap takes care of this > > automatically > > > > 9. ignore the filesystem > > - http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-parted/2009-02/msg00009.html > > * It needs testing. No testing available AFAIK. > > > > 10. parted detects reiserfs root partition as linux-swap > > - http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-parted/2009-05/msg00006.html > > * Also needs test and has no patch. I think its worth > > investigating. > > > > Regards. > > -- > Joel Andres Granados > Brno, Czech Republic, Red Hat. > > _______________________________________________ > parted-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/parted-devel -- Joel Andres Granados Brno, Czech Republic, Red Hat. _______________________________________________ parted-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/parted-devel
