drakx, branch user/martinw/mga6 Mageia Installer and base platform for many utilities Always tell the kernel about partition table changes when running the classic installer (mga#20074). 2017-02-20T23:08:36+00:00 Martin Whitaker mageia@martin-whitaker.me.uk 2017-02-20T21:42:27+00:00 ca43ff9c8b9a53cb1d4d68173794556519bac257 The automatic rescan of the partition table is triggered by udevd. The udev rule that causes this is not present on the cut-down system that runs the classic installer. 
The automatic rescan of the partition table is triggered by udevd. The
udev rule that causes this is not present on the cut-down system that
runs the classic installer.
Update NEWS 2017-02-12T12:59:01+00:00 Martin Whitaker mageia@martin-whitaker.me.uk 2017-02-12T09:18:01+00:00 48cef68d42e5d1076b2f3bed4b59be150de48694 






Inhibit udisks2 when running drakdisk (mga#20247).
2017-02-12T12:57:27+00:00

Martin Whitaker
mageia@martin-whitaker.me.uk

2017-02-10T23:43:47+00:00

c5512813ad4795f5f3596a7963b84d821604f212

This prevents disks/partitions being auto-mounted by e.g. Thunar
when drakdisk probes the disks or makes changes, which can lead
to disk corruption.





This prevents disks/partitions being auto-mounted by e.g. Thunar
when drakdisk probes the disks or makes changes, which can lead
to disk corruption.







explicitly probe LVMs in live install
2017-02-12T11:54:53+00:00

Thierry Vignaud
thierry.vignaud@gmail.com

2017-01-30T09:43:06+00:00

bd4c2c2f5c8b92e1cd0e72ba5471dd526c535279












Exclude x11-driver-video-vmware from unneeded packages (mga#19979).
2017-02-12T11:54:53+00:00

Martin Whitaker
mageia@martin-whitaker.me.uk

2016-12-19T14:01:22+00:00

b1e9ed8a077baf02f1a0be5959c4b39069bf7183

It's required by x11-driver-video, and removing that orphans all
the other required x11 video driver packages.





It's required by x11-driver-video, and removing that orphans all
the other required x11 video driver packages.







Allow a BIOS boot partition to be located on any disk (mga#20161).
2017-02-12T11:54:53+00:00

Martin Whitaker
mageia@martin-whitaker.me.uk

2017-02-05T00:03:41+00:00

e3662f1c4b563d148b8d6e7e650e93eff89b6df1

This relaxes the rules in fs::any::is_boot_bios_part_needed to allow
the BIOS boot partition to be located on any disk, not just the disk
containing the root partition. It also ensures that a BIOS boot
partition is never forcibly required in a system with non-GPT disks.





This relaxes the rules in fs::any::is_boot_bios_part_needed to allow
the BIOS boot partition to be located on any disk, not just the disk
containing the root partition. It also ensures that a BIOS boot
partition is never forcibly required in a system with non-GPT disks.







Fix auto-allocation of BIOS boot partitions (mga#20161, mga#19888).
2017-02-12T11:54:53+00:00

Martin Whitaker
mageia@martin-whitaker.me.uk

2017-02-04T23:46:14+00:00

02ba0f311a04e3fe93985bb75b6e7e99c6315b73

This adds a specific subroutine, fsedit::auto_allocate_boot_bios_parts
that detects if a BIOS boot partition is needed and allocates it if so.
This allows us to relax the rules in fs::any::is_boot_bios_part_needed
to allow the user to manually allocate the BIOS boot partition on a
different device if they so wish.

In the normal case that installation is confined to a single disk,
this will allocate a single BIOS boot partition on that disk. In
the rare case that installation is spread over multiple disks, it
will allocate a BIOS boot partition on every disk. Given that the
BIOS boot partitions are very small and that this is not a normal
use case (see mga#16055), this seems an acceptable quirk - and does
allow the user to then choose any disk when installing the boot
loader.





This adds a specific subroutine, fsedit::auto_allocate_boot_bios_parts
that detects if a BIOS boot partition is needed and allocates it if so.
This allows us to relax the rules in fs::any::is_boot_bios_part_needed
to allow the user to manually allocate the BIOS boot partition on a
different device if they so wish.

In the normal case that installation is confined to a single disk,
this will allocate a single BIOS boot partition on that disk. In
the rare case that installation is spread over multiple disks, it
will allocate a BIOS boot partition on every disk. Given that the
BIOS boot partitions are very small and that this is not a normal
use case (see mga#16055), this seems an acceptable quirk - and does
allow the user to then choose any disk when installing the boot
loader.







Rename partition_table::_default_type to partition_table::default_type.
2017-02-12T11:54:53+00:00

Martin Whitaker
mageia@martin-whitaker.me.uk

2017-02-04T23:42:51+00:00

aeccd33e13b5bd532fe08e5b3f1630935bbd9cfb

The following patches want to use it outside the partition_table module.





The following patches want to use it outside the partition_table module.







Fix erratic behaviour when telling kernel to delete partitions (mga#20074).
2017-02-12T11:54:53+00:00

Martin Whitaker
mageia@martin-whitaker.me.uk

2017-02-04T17:11:10+00:00

3a76f08fbdd7dc83dc260e6af4f482c600774576

When telling the kernel about changes to a DOS partition table, if a
partition was deleted on a disk that also contained an Empty partition,
the kernel also removed the Empty partition from its cached partition
table (and renumbered the other partitions).

Experimentation showed that leaving the udev exec queue active whilst we
were telling the kernel about the changes fixed this problem, although I
don't have an explanation for why it does.





When telling the kernel about changes to a DOS partition table, if a
partition was deleted on a disk that also contained an Empty partition,
the kernel also removed the Empty partition from its cached partition
table (and renumbered the other partitions).

Experimentation showed that leaving the udev exec queue active whilst we
were telling the kernel about the changes fixed this problem, although I
don't have an explanation for why it does.







Set fs_type to '' for BIOS boot and Empty partitions.
2017-02-12T11:54:53+00:00

Martin Whitaker
mageia@martin-whitaker.me.uk

2017-02-04T08:11:50+00:00

fbce536146d3257e12d8cea79c150b0175dfeae7

This prevents misreporting of the partition type in diskdrake if they
located on top of an old partition that contained a valid file system.





This prevents misreporting of the partition type in diskdrake if they
located on top of an old partition that contained a valid file system.