Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2025 17:22:06 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> To: Matthias Andree <mandree@freebsd.org> Cc: ports-committers@freebsd.org, dev-commits-ports-all@freebsd.org, dev-commits-ports-main@freebsd.org Subject: Re: git: 4d03cd5c0e7c - main - sysutils/linuxfdisk: deprecate, see util-linux Message-ID: <aNluvhZ-87IhGO33@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <b12a391b-93ae-4215-8aba-617104c0066f@freebsd.org> References: <202507061230.566CUD7e013550@gitrepo.freebsd.org> <aNkJJ7fW8L-hLeRR@FreeBSD.org> <f40679ab-2a24-4925-b036-9ed47235564a@FreeBSD.org> <aNk5LPkWvqHJEj0Z@FreeBSD.org> <b12a391b-93ae-4215-8aba-617104c0066f@freebsd.org>
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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. > 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. ./danfehome | help
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