[arch-releng] [RFC] [PATCH] [configs/releng] Add gptfdisk to live enviroment.

[Dave Reisner]

On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 08:36:16AM +0200, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:27:29 -0300
> Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <vmlinuz386 at yahoo.com.ar> wrote:
> 
> > Image size in MiB:
> > 
> > old -- new -- iso
> > 679 -> 693    core-dual
> > 374 -> 381    core-i686
> > 380 -> 387    core-x86_64
> > 309 -> 323    netinstall-dual
> > 182 -> 189    netinstall-i686
> > 185 -> 192    netinstall-x86_64
> > 
> > Was requested: mailing-list and bugtracker.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <vmlinuz386 at yahoo.com.ar>
> > ---
> >  configs/releng/packages.i686   |    1 +
> >  configs/releng/packages.x86_64 |    1 +
> >  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/configs/releng/packages.i686
> > b/configs/releng/packages.i686 index 27db22c..5083750 100644
> > --- a/configs/releng/packages.i686
> > +++ b/configs/releng/packages.i686
> > @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ dnsutils
> >  dosfstools
> >  elinks
> >  gnu-netcat
> > +gptfdisk
> >  hdparm
> >  inetutils
> >  ipw2100-fw
> > diff --git a/configs/releng/packages.x86_64
> > b/configs/releng/packages.x86_64 index 27db22c..5083750 100644
> > --- a/configs/releng/packages.x86_64
> > +++ b/configs/releng/packages.x86_64
> > @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ dnsutils
> >  dosfstools
> >  elinks
> >  gnu-netcat
> > +gptfdisk
> >  hdparm
> >  inetutils
> >  ipw2100-fw
> 
> I wonder when/if util-linux will come with GPT aware tools.
> If that will happen, I would rather use those tools, as I trust kernel people more.
> But as long as that hasn't happened, we can make our users happy by including "something".. like this.
> I see this also comes with 'sgdisk', do you know if the input for that is comparable to sfdisk input?

Eventually it will happen. I can't state any specifics, but I inquired a
while back about the plausibility of blkid pulling PARTUUID numbers, and
upstream mentioned that it was on the roadmap.

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