[ACTION REQUIRED v4] Retiring packages for F-18

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Fri Jul 27 02:26:34 UTC 2012


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 don't know if it'd make sense to bump parted to 3.1 in F17. Probably
not.)
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