Re: partman extended partition bug

2008-01-17 Thread Grégory Oestreicher
Le mercredi 16 janvier 2008 23:09, Frans Pop a écrit : > As you can see, an additional change was needed in partman-auto-lvm to make > using a primary partition really work (initialization of devfspv_devices > happened after use in create_primary_partitions). Right, and I didn't noticed it as I re

Re: partman extended partition bug

2008-01-16 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 16 January 2008, Grégory Oestreicher wrote: > Le mercredi 16 janvier 2008 08:29, Frans Pop a écrit : > > I see roughly what you mean, but have some trouble translating it to a > > specific situation. With which recipe does this happen (or: how exactly > > can I reproduce this bug)? > >

Re: partman extended partition bug

2008-01-16 Thread Grégory Oestreicher
Le mercredi 16 janvier 2008 08:29, Frans Pop a écrit : > I see roughly what you mean, but have some trouble translating it to a > specific situation. With which recipe does this happen (or: how exactly can > I reproduce this bug)? Actually there's no recipe that should be impacted by this bug. I n

Re: partman extended partition bug

2008-01-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 15 January 2008, Grégory Oestreicher wrote: > Le mardi 15 janvier 2008 11:00, Frans Pop a écrit : > > On Monday 14 January 2008, John Philips wrote: > > > I'm having trouble automating my Debian installs using > > > preseed and partman. It always creates an extended > > > partition, eve

Re: partman extended partition bug

2008-01-15 Thread Grégory Oestreicher
And with the patch now... Sorry for the noise Index: lib/auto-shared.sh === --- lib/auto-shared.sh (révision 50888) +++ lib/auto-shared.sh (copie de travail) @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ # Create new disk label; don't prompt for label . /lib/pa

Re: partman extended partition bug

2008-01-15 Thread Grégory Oestreicher
(self-answer, sorry) > This introduced a "bug" : now if a LVM PV is created on a primary partition > it is not added in $devfspv_devices, and auto_lvm_perform should fail. I confirm this bug, and here is a patch that "works for me". It takes all the flagging out of create_partitions and puts it

Re: partman extended partition bug

2008-01-15 Thread Grégory Oestreicher
Le mardi 15 janvier 2008 11:00, Frans Pop a écrit : > On Monday 14 January 2008, John Philips wrote: > > I'm having trouble automating my Debian installs using > > preseed and partman. It always creates an extended > > partition, even though I don't want it to. > > I've just committed a fix for th

Re: partman extended partition bug

2008-01-15 Thread John Philips
> I've just committed a fix for this issue. The > problem was mainly that the > logic in partman auto is fairly complex so properly > analyzing the issue > took quite some time. > > It will be fixed with the next upload of > partman-auto. FJP, I looked through the source, it is quite daunting.

Re: partman extended partition bug

2008-01-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 14 January 2008, John Philips wrote: > I'm having trouble automating my Debian installs using > preseed and partman. It always creates an extended > partition, even though I don't want it to. I've just committed a fix for this issue. The problem was mainly that the logic in partman aut

Re: partman extended partition bug

2008-01-14 Thread John Philips
--- Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 12:53:46PM -0800, John > Philips wrote: > > I'm having trouble automating my Debian installs > using > > preseed and partman. It always creates an > extended > > partition, even though I don't want it to. I only > > want logi

Re: partman extended partition bug

2008-01-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 12:53:46PM -0800, John Philips wrote: > I'm having trouble automating my Debian installs using > preseed and partman. It always creates an extended > partition, even though I don't want it to. I only > want logical partitions. It is not possible to create a logical partit

partman extended partition bug

2008-01-14 Thread John Philips
Hi all, I'm having trouble automating my Debian installs using preseed and partman. It always creates an extended partition, even though I don't want it to. I only want logical partitions. Described here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=413505 Will this bug ever be fixed? An