Hans de Goede wrote: > Hi All, > > I was planning on staying with parted-1.9.0 + the load > of patches we are carry-ing for now, but given bug 553518, we > might need to reconsider this. > > So I'm now thinking about upgrading parted to 2.1 > for Fedora 13 and maybe also for RHEL-6 (we also > have a RHEL-6 bug about 4k sectors: bug 523954). > > Upgrading to 2.1 also has the advantage that it has > much robuster gpt support. This is a good argument, too. > I only have 2 worries: > 1) All my recent dasd patches have been forward > ported, and some tests have been run to make sure > dasd support works, still we may see some regressions > there (but nothing that should be unfixable, as there > are no major differences in the dasd support). > > 2) All libparted users will need to be rebuild as > the soname will change (the API is presevered, so a > simple rebuild will suffice): > [hans@localhost ~]$ repoquery -q --whatrequires 'libparted-1.9.so.0()(64bit)' > gparted-0:0.4.6-1.fc12.x86_64 > qtparted-0:0.4.5-22.fc12.x86_64 > DeviceKit-disks-0:009-3.fc12.x86_64 > pyparted-0:2.1.2-1.fc12.x86_64 > gparted-0:0.4.8-1.fc12.x86_64 > kde-partitionmanager-0:1.0.0-2.fc12.x86_64 > libvirt-0:0.7.1-15.fc12.x86_64 That seems like minimal pain for worthwhile improvements. But I'm biased ;-) There's bound to be some fall-out, but I'd rather see it happen sooner than later. _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
