[ACTION REQUIRED v4] Retiring packages for F-18

[Peter Robinson]

On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 3:26 AM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> 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