Bug#694668: A patch improve the performance of os-prober for systems with many partitions

2013-02-05 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
A patch (part of the original) to pipe all logs to logger rather than running it repeatedly. P.S. Isn't there any 'development' branch in os-prober which is not tied to Debian releases? That's weird. diff -up os-prober-1.57/common.sh.logger-factor-out os-prober-1.57/common.sh --- os-prober-1.57

Bug#699840: linux-boot-prober doesn't return correct boot partition if both / and /boot partitions are already mounted

2013-02-05 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
Package: os-prober Version: 1.57 Tags: patch linux-boot-prober returns root partition instead of /boot partition when both / and /boot are already mounted somewhere when it is called. The attached patch fixes this problem. Additionally, it returns the original name rather than the mapped one,

Bug#699839: linux-boot-prober doesn't return original boot partition name in fstab

2013-02-05 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
Package: os-prober Version: 1.57 Tags: patch linux-boot-prober resolves symbolic links for partition names in /etc/fstab, and returns that as the partition name. But it is usually desirable to return the original name in fstab. Additionally, this seems to be problematic for LVM volumes, since

Bug#699189: Duplicate!

2013-01-28 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
Sorry, this can be considered as a duplicate of bug #688336

Bug#699189: os-prober does not detect multi btrfs pools/volumes

2013-01-28 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
Package: os-prober Version: 1.57 Tags: patch This is a patch from one of our users to fix detection of multi btrfs pools/volumes in os-prober. Reference: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=888341 Description: 1. regular ext2 partitions are used for /boot 2. There are two separate btrf

Bug#694668: A patch improve the performance of os-prober for systems with many partitions

2013-01-22 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
know. Anyway, attached you'll find a small patch which just replaces usage of 'basename' with shell string processing (already used in some parts of the code, so should be supported in the target shell(s)). /*Cyril Brulebois */ wrote on Tue, 25 Dec 2012 19:33:56 +0100: Hi, He

Bug#698733: Fix detection of /usr/ partition as a GNU/Linux root partition when /lib* directories are moved to /usr/ completely (e.g. in Fedora 17/18)

2013-01-22 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
Package: os-prober Version: 1.57 Tags: patch In distributions which have moved /lib* completely inside /usr/, if /usr is in a separate partition os-prober will consider that /usr partition as a root partition. This patch makes sure that /usr partitions are not detected as / partition by check

Bug#698598: Small patch to enable/disable debug output

2013-01-21 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
Hi, /*Cyril Brulebois */ wrote on Mon, 21 Jan 2013 21:36:55 +0100: Hi, and thanks for the patch. Hedayat Vatankhah (21/01/2013): This bug is reported by one of our users, and also the patch is provided by him. And this is his comments on the provided patch: Currently, os-prober generates

Bug#698598: Small patch to enable/disable debug output

2013-01-20 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
Package: os-prober Version: 1.57 Tags: patch This bug is reported by one of our users, and also the patch is provided by him. And this is his comments on the provided patch: Currently, os-prober generates a great deal of debug messages to syslog. While these are certainly useful when debugg

Bug#674561: A patch to improve parsing yaboot.conf

2012-05-25 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
Package: os-prober Version: 1.53 Tags: patch os-prober assumes that there is no space around '=' sign for append directive in yaboot.conf, while there can be. Therefore, both append="some options" and append = "some options" are valid in yaboot.conf. This patch fixes this parsing bug. diff

Bug#674560: A patch to add support for reading Fedora's grub2 config file

2012-05-25 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
Package: os-prober Version: 1.53 Tags: patch Currently, Fedora installs grub2 inside /boot/grub2 rather than /boot/grub. Therefore, grub.cfg resides in /boot/grub2/, while os-prober assumes that grub.cfg is in /boot/grub/. Therefore, proper boot arguments for Fedora installation is not retrie

Bug#648251: Any Updates?

2012-04-29 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
Thanks for the cleanups. Anyway, is there any problems with the fix?

Bug#648251: A patch to add support for distributions installed on MD Raid devices

2011-11-09 Thread Hedayat Vatankhah
Package: os-prober Version: 1.48 This bug is about the bug reported in [1] and the provided patch. This patch is expected to provide support for distributions installed on mdraid devices. Please review the patch and apply if appropriate. Thanks [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi