On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 07:41:11PM +0200, Joel Granados wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 05:29:17PM +0200, Gilles Espinasse wrote: > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Joel Granados" <[email protected]> > > To: "Parted Devel" <[email protected]> ... > > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2009-April/002782.html > > > > > > > > If you want more details on 6 and 7, I am there listening. > > Great! I have read the issue again and the patch idea seems ok. > > > I have tested softraid working on sparc. I just suffered a bit before to > > have a working receipt to create the partition where the machine will boot > > from after installation. > > The sh script that do that well for me is at > > http://ipcop.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ipcop/ipcop/trunk/src/scripts/disk-partition?revision=2757 > > This shell script seems very complete. Thx for the link. > > What needs to be done for this fix to "go in" to parted is two things: > a. the patch needs to exist > b. the test for the issue needs to exists. > > For a. One needs to create a patch using git and send it to the list > using git-format-patch. In that way it can easily be included in the > SRCs and your authorship will be maintained. For 6 at least I did not > find said patch, I have not yet looked at 7. > > For b. One needs to create a test file in the /test directory that will > prove that the issue is resolved. like create a softraid and then list > the partitions and make sure that md-0 is not listed. Its not allways > easy because the test should run in a special contained maner. > > If you have provided these two things (a and b), pls show me where they > are. If you have not provided them, it would be a great help for the > 1.9.0 effort if you did so. It would save me two issues to worry about > and I could skip to 8... and we could be done before the end of the > week (hopefully) > > If I have missunderstood your proposal, pls be so kind and correct me :) > > Regards. > > PS: you can ask for help with a and b in #parted (freenode). Im in > Central Europe, but I know otavio and others are in the americas and can > help you out.
Seems like I misunderstood your email. I thought you wanted to post a patch. I will continue to address 6. and 7. while using the info you posted. Regards. -- Joel Andres Granados Brno, Czech Republic, Red Hat. _______________________________________________ parted-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/parted-devel
