New version of parted, with amiga partition and filesystem probe support.

[Sven L. <sve...@wa...>]

Hello everyone.

I did make an NMU of parted 1.6.6-1.1 including the amiga partitioning
support some time ago, but i am preparing a new version of it, 1.6.6-1.2
with enhanced amiga partitioning support (well an endianess fix for x86
among other bugfixes), as well as probe support for all kind of amiga
filesystems (FFS 0 to 7, MuFS 0 to 5, SFS, PFS 1 & 2).

I would like another round of testing to be done with this one, before i
make a new NMU of parted and (hopefully) it gets included upstream.
Well, i duplicated the partition table reading code in the filesystem
code, this should make upstream happy.

For those of you wanting to recompile parted for m68k, be aware of a bug
in the linux-kernel-headers of the new glibc which makes it fail to
build. Workaround is to declare __invalid_size_argument_for_IOC as
unsigned int, or to use an older version of glibc. See bug #219940 for
details.

Anyway, i386 and powerpc binaries as well as sources are available on :

  deb http://people.debian.org/~luther/parted/i386
  deb http://people.debian.org/~luther/parted/powerpc
  deb-src http://people.debian.org/~luther/parted/source

I would gladly add m68k binaries there also if someone forward them to me.

Notice : these packages should be fairly ok, since i did a full
reinstall of my system, partitioning the disk on my x86 box before
creating a affs filesystem with Roman's mkaffs tool, copying the install
stuff to the disk, and then putting it in my pegasos and launch the
install kernel from OF.

Friendly,

Sven Luther