Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] parted_1.8.6.bb: add parted that not GPLv3

2015-07-11 Thread Andre McCurdy
On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Burton, Ross ross.bur...@intel.com wrote: On 9 July 2015 at 12:38, Otavio Salvador ota...@ossystems.com.br wrote: Parted 1.8 is very old and not supported at all. The number of fixes after it is such huge which makes Parted mostly useless in new storage and

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] parted_1.8.6.bb: add parted that not GPLv3

2015-07-10 Thread Burton, Ross
On 9 July 2015 at 12:38, Otavio Salvador ota...@ossystems.com.br wrote: Parted 1.8 is very old and not supported at all. The number of fixes after it is such huge which makes Parted mostly useless in new storage and disk formats. I see NO benefit in having it and a serious maintenance burden.

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] parted_1.8.6.bb: add parted that not GPLv3

2015-07-09 Thread Lei, Maohui
[mailto:alexander.kana...@linux.intel.com] Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2015 7:33 PM To: Lei, Maohui Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org Subject: Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] parted_1.8.6.bb: add parted that not GPLv3 Add parted-1.8.6 which is not GPLv3. I have to say, I still can't support

[OE-core] [PATCH] parted_1.8.6.bb: add parted that not GPLv3

2015-07-09 Thread Lei Maohui
Add parted-1.8.6 which is not GPLv3. Signed-off-by: Lei Maohui leimao...@cn.fujitsu.com --- .../parted-1.8.6/1000parted-1.8.6-warnings1.patch | 17 ++ .../1001parted-1.8.6-notransname1.patch| 45 .../1002parted-1.8.6-off-by-one1.patch | 31

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] parted_1.8.6.bb: add parted that not GPLv3

2015-07-09 Thread Otavio Salvador
On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 8:33 AM, alexander.kana...@linux.intel.com wrote: Add parted-1.8.6 which is not GPLv3. I have to say, I still can't support having this in oe-core. Providing alternatives to GPLv3 software is fine, but not when the 'alternative' is a very old, unsupported version of

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] parted_1.8.6.bb: add parted that not GPLv3

2015-07-09 Thread alexander . kanavin
Add parted-1.8.6 which is not GPLv3. I have to say, I still can't support having this in oe-core. Providing alternatives to GPLv3 software is fine, but not when the 'alternative' is a very old, unsupported version of the same software, which inevitably brings issues in functionality and