bug#61076: Change in MBR between parted 3.2 and 3.3

[Frédéric Martinsons]

> > OK , thank you very much for the explanation. Since I don't use
> > raspberry Pi among my targets, do you think I can safely run a custom
> > parted with a revert of 61dd3d4c5eb782eb43caa95342e63727db3f8281 ?

> That's probably fine, as long as you know what you are doing ;)

Ok I'll go this way, thanks.

> > OK I understand, since you close the present bug, do you know where I
> > can have your conclusion when you'll have time to look at it ?
> >
> > Thanks again for the quick answer by the way.

> I'm *hoping* to get a new parted release ready sometime soon, but I'm
> not yet sure when. I have a few other things to review and I'll take a
> look at this at the same time to make sure it's not a bug.

Fine, I'll keep a look to the parted release then ;)
By the way, I come up with a patch (joined) which is a mix of revert
61dd3d4c5eb782eb43caa95342e63727db3f8281 and
taken into account 52360db2f5397b7842d2ed90bf946c5e8fa91750
(which mention some kind of regression too):

Have a nice day

On Thu, 26 Jan 2023 at 19:50, Brian C. Lane <bcl@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 05:39:24PM +0100, Frédéric Martinsons wrote:
> > > This change was introduced by commit
> > > 61dd3d4c5eb782eb43caa95342e63727db3f8281, it was needed to fix problems
> > > growing partitions when using SD cards on the Raspberry Pi.
> >
> > OK , thank you very much for the explanation. Since I don't use
> > raspberry Pi among my targets, do you think I can safely run a custom
> > parted with a revert of 61dd3d4c5eb782eb43caa95342e63727db3f8281 ?
>
> That's probably fine, as long as you know what you are doing ;)
>
> >
> > > Well, nothing should be actually using the CHS values these days. So
> > > it's possible that's a bug that doesn't matter in practice, but I'll
> > > have to look into that.
> >
> > OK I understand, since you close the present bug, do you know where I
> > can have your conclusion when you'll have time to look at it ?
> >
> > Thanks again for the quick answer by the way.
>
> I'm *hoping* to get a new parted release ready sometime soon, but I'm
> not yet sure when. I have a few other things to review and I'll take a
> look at this at the same time to make sure it's not a bug.
>
> Brian
>
> --
> Brian C. Lane (PST8PDT) - weldr.io - lorax - parted - pykickstart
>

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