On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 17:06:57 -0400 David Campbell <davekong@archlinux.us> wrote:
Excerpts from Dieter Plaetinck's message of 2011-03-27 10:01:35 -0400:
If I want to support GPT I will need decent utilities from upstream. I know about parted and sgdisk but I need a toolset for: - interactive partitioning
Because I was not too happy with doing interactive partitioning with parted, I started a project [cparted][1]. I thought it was going to be ready for use soon, but then realized it has some issues (alignment wrong, fixing alignment had other unwanted side effects), and am not sure how soon they will be fixed. But this brings up a couple questions. If cparted is in good working order, would it be considered for use with AIF?
Maybe, if the project has become really big. For stuff like this I really would like a reliable upstream which I can trust will produce high-quality software. We're talking about tricky and important stuff which is hard to debug. And we're talking about stuff that every distribution needs, so I'm inclined to wait for a solution supported by the kernel guys (i.e. something in util-linux would be nice)
Is having Python and [pyparted][2] as dependencies OK? I would try hard to avoid python. There were times I wished I wrote aif in python (then it obviously be okay), but at this point I would rather just depend on some commonly available binary programs.
- scripted partitioning (for auto-installs)
You can run parted in --script mode.
Hmm, and does it have a proper UI in ncurses or something? to replace cfdisk in aif? I know about the newt-based nparted but I'm told it's badly maintained. Dieter