Re: git: 4d03cd5c0e7c - main - sysutils/linuxfdisk: deprecate, see util-linux

Am 28.09.25 um 19:22 schrieb Alexey Dokuchaev:
> On Sun, Sep 28, 2025 at 05:43:15PM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote:
>> Am 28.09.25 um 15:33 schrieb Alexey Dokuchaev:
>> ...
>>> Debugging and potentially fixing the problem is certainly doable, but
>>> that's still a non-zero amount of work and someone(tm) has to do it
>>> *before* deprecating working port in favor of (currently) non-working,
>>> for this particular use case.
>>
>> Yes. gpart has always worked for me, there is no usecase for a 21-year old
> 
> I also like gpart(8) but still often prefer linuxfdisk(8) because of its
> interactive mode and finger memory -- that's a fairly common usecase for
> us old farts. :)
> 
>> unmaintained port.
> 
> Technically it is maintained by Valentin; I believe he's still active in
> public, although I haven't spoken to him in a while.  Also, being a user
> myself, I've done some facelifting back in 2021 following the DIOCGDINFO
> removal from the base, so I keep my hand on its pulse.

Yep, but you're feeling the pulse in the wrong person's arm.

No Valentin is mentioned in Util-Linux's release notes since v2.13, so 
he may have had his hands on the port but pretty certainly not the 
actual tool.  Looking through the release notes [1],
I'd think its *way* past due to remove that linuxfdisk port. It should 
have been updated or killed 20 years ago.

It doesn't know about GPT... or to align blocks if disks have larger 
write units (4K sectors, say).  and linuxfdisk can't even list the 
partitions in my VM's disk.  Why would I let such a dinosaur *write* 
anything in my system?

[1] 
https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/tree/v2.41.1/Documentation/releases 
then look through all files for cfdisk, fdisk, sfdisk to learn what was 
added or fixed in the past 22 years.

> 
>> If you find the maintained util-linux version doesn't work for you, then
>> you need to debug that.
> 
> Or I can just keep using `sysutils/linuxfdisk' which works fine as it is.

I don't think I share your definition of "works fine", and FreeBSD is 
deprecating it's own fdisk, too, and it's slated for removal in 15.
Time to let go and move to modern tools.

-- 
Matthias Andree
FreeBSD ports committer