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

Am 28.09.25 um 17:43 schrieb Matthias Andree:
> 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 unmaintained port. If you find the maintained util-linux version 
> doesn't work for you, then you need to debug that.

...to explain, then we need to debug the current version to fix the 
regression that it's suffered over the version from 2004 - unless we 
have evidence the upstream maintainers of util-linux won't care.

Where I don't know if linuxfdisk can do modern stuff such as large 
partitions, 4K alignments, GPT labels with protective MBR and all that.

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Matthias Andree
FreeBSD ports committer