On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 3:26 AM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 15:45 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: >> On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 13:15 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: >> > > Package qtparted (fails to build) >> > >> > Hmmmm... >> > >> > http://bugz.fedoraproject.org/qtparted >> > >> > 750566 Fedora new qtparted won't install because it is from F15 and requires libparted.so.0, and F16 has so.1 >> > 802782 Fedora new qtparted fails to install due to missing dependency >> > 715847 Fedora new FTBFS qtparted-0.4.5-26.fc15 >> > 502802 Fedora new switch to using PolicyKit >> > >> > # yum list qtparted|tail -1 >> > qtparted.x86_64 0.4.5-26.fc15 fedora >> > >> > http://qtparted.sourceforge.net/ >> > lists 0.5.0 (stable), but that's probably an old release, too. >> >> There's a 0.6.0 release available from the sourceforge Files page. It >> claims to support parted 3.0 and later. I'll grab that and see if I can >> get it to fly. > > So, I got 0.6.0 building against Rawhide. There's a bit of a problem, > though - it doesn't build against F17. > > F17 has parted 3.0. Rawhide has parted 3.1. parted 3.1 restored some > bits of API that 3.0 removed, and that qtparted uses. So it can build > against 3.1, but not 3.0. > > I don't have a Rawhide install handy. I just tried upgrading a VM to > Rawhide but I can't get X to run on it at all. So I can't test the > build, because I can't run Rawhide and I can't build qtparted in a way > that'll work on F17 so I can test it there. > > So reluctantly I've pushed the build through to Rawhide blind. If anyone > has a functioning Rawhide install and can test it, I'd really appreciate > it. Particularly I'd like to know if the usermode stuff works - i.e. if > you try and run it as a regular user, does it prompt for root password > and correctly run as root? Also is it still _necessary_ - if you bypass > the usermode stuff and run qtparted directly as a regular user (just > call /usr/sbin/qtparted directly), does it handle privilege escalation > on its own when necessary? If so, we can drop the usermode guff. Aside > from that, just the usual 'does it actually run/work' smoke test. > thanks! I have a netbook running rawhide, I'll try and test it over the weekend. > (I don't know if it'd make sense to bump parted to 3.1 in F17. Probably > not.) Please no, it had changed that caused problems when it was bumped in rawhide that may or may not have been pulled back. I don't think it's worth the risk. Peter -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
