Re: parted is missing from addons list

[Jon Murphy <jcmurphy26@gmail.com>]

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FYI - I just moved parted out of the add-on section.

Jon

> On Jul 26, 2022, at 5:20 AM, Adolf Belka <adolf.belka(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Michael,
> 
> On 26/07/2022 11:06, Michael Tremer wrote:
>> Hello Adolf,
>> The rootfile is in a wrong place for this being a package:
>> https://git.ipfire.org/?p=ipfire-2.x.git;a=blob;f=config/rootfiles/common/parted;hb=f26f08b464287f91ff6df849b9e77d354e72d4cb
>> Since 2014 it is part of the core distribution:
> Thanks for that info.
>> https://git.ipfire.org/?p=ipfire-2.x.git;a=commitdiff;h=29d997e6c425b82303a4835dbcbd260611d12357
>> Are you expecting a package and is parted missing on your system?
> On the forum a user said that he looked for parted in the addon list and couldn't find it.
> 
> I then looked in the wiki and parted is still shown as being an addon, no mention of being a core program.
> 
> Then I looked in the lfs and it has a PAK_VER number which is what addons usually have so I didn't look at the rootfile or its location.
> 
> Looking back at the git history, I see the move from packages to common in 2014 but the lfs file was not altered to remove the PAK_VER number or the @$(PAK) line. That is what confused me.
> 
> I will raise a patch to make the parted lfs file be inline with a core program and will also modify the wiki.
> 
> Obviously when I did updates of parted it didn't click in my mind that I was updating the lfs as an addon but the rootfile was in the common directory. Oh Well!! Brain must have been on autopilot.
> 
> Regards,
> Adolf.
>> -Michael
>>> On 26 Jul 2022, at 10:03, Adolf Belka <adolf.belka(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> From a discussion on the forum it has been found that parted is no longer in the packages-list and doesn't show up on the pakfire list because of that.
>>> 
>>> I don't know when it got removed from there but updates have been getting done to parted, last was in May this year by myself and it is still in the build.
>>> 
>>> How do we get parted back into the packages-list on the server?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> 
>>> Adolf
>>>