Re: parted-1.9.0 -- comments and patches

[Peter Breitenlohner]

On Mon, 3 Aug 2009, Joel Granados wrote:

> You are _not_ on next, you are on master branch.  pls do a
> `git checkout next` and repeat the tests.  FYI, master == 1.9.0.
> Remember to do the whole process from the beginning.  1. bootstrap, 2.
> configure. 3. make  4. sudo make check

Hi Joel,

OK done.  I suppose above you wanted to say '4. sudo make install'

> TESTS
> 1. Do the `make check` and see if you still have the failure in t7000.
> There will be failures in other tests.  but these also fail for me and
> need to be addressed.

The test t7000 still fails for me, but succeeds with the patch.

> 2. Execute the test line directly
> dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile bs=512c count=100
> echo n | sudo PREFIX/sbin/parted  ---pretend-input-tty testfile "mklabel gpt mkpart 
> primary ext3 1s -1s"

I have done exectly this (with PREFIX=/tmp) and got:
<snip>
Warning: You requested a partition from 512B to 50.7kB.
The closest location we can manage is 17.4kB to 33.8kB.
Is this still acceptable to you?
Yes/No? n
<snip>

BTW: I am using readline-6.0.3 (6.0 with patches 001-003).

Next I have done everything again, this time '--without-readline'.
Executing the test line directly is unchanged.
Running 'make check' now succeeds with and without the patch, simply because
without readline t7000 is skipped.

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I am giving up now and will wait for the next release.

Regards
Peter