Re: [parted-devel] [Parted-maintainers] Debian Bug #578097: No support for CMS-formatted disks

[Jim Meyering]

Stephen Powell wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Nov 2010 10:49:06 -0500 (EST), Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Thanks for the fix.
>> Until today I had not compiled your changes on an s390x.
>> When I did, there were 3 other minor problems, addressed
>> by the patch below, just after the one you suggested.
>>
>> That got past "make check" as a non-privileged user.
>> However, running "make check" as root exercises several
>> other cases that cannot be tested as a regular user, and
>> at least two of those are failing.  Those failures
>> are not due to your changes, so as soon as I have
>> a test or two to exercise your changes I'll feel
>> comfortable pushing the result.  I expect to use
>> the same mechanism as used in a few other tests
>> whereby you specify a device and its size like this:
>>
>>     sudo make check DEVICE_TO_ERASE=/dev/sdd DEVICE_TO_ERASE_SIZE=999MB
>>
>> But it won't be this weekend, so maybe next week...
>
> How is your testing going?  It's unclear to me from what

Finding time for parted has been a challenge recently.

> you wrote.  Are you asking me to provide a test case?

If you can, that'd be great and would accelerate the process.  I would
no longer have an excuse not to push your patches.  I nearly pushed
without a test case, but your changes are large enough that I cannot
do that in good conscience.

I didn't want to require you to write a test, but in the end my time
constraints appear to be having the same effect.  Sorry about that.