Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 10:37:48 -0400 From: "J. Hellenthal" <jhell@DataIX.net> To: Matthias Andree <mandree@freebsd.org> Cc: Rainer Hurling <rhurlin@gwdg.de>, FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: sysutils/gpart: deprecated port, anyone interested? Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1103171034440.62808@qvfongpu.qngnvk.ybpny> In-Reply-To: <4D81D572.20800@FreeBSD.org> References: <20110316172011.GL51701@eggman.experts-exchange.com> <20110316173613.GO51701@eggman.experts-exchange.com> <1300298080.1474.22.camel@xenon> <4D8108C1.5070006@gwdg.de> <20110317000925.GA59157@apollo.emma.line.org> <4D81AEF3.3040507@gwdg.de> <4D81D572.20800@FreeBSD.org>
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This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --80310268-1420767874-1300372671=:62808 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 05:33, mandree@ wrote: > Am 17.03.2011 07:49, schrieb Rainer Hurling: >> Hey Matthias, >> >> thanks for taking this up. >> >> Am 17.03.2011 01:09 (UTC+1) schrieb Matthias Andree: >>> On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 08:00:17PM +0100, Rainer Hurling wrote: >>> >>>> gpart in sysutils/gpart stands for 'guess partitions'. Its an old, but >>>> very useful tool for repairing partitions. Unfortunately it does not >>>> work on amd64. >>> >>> I've added two patches to make it work on amd64, bumped the expiration >>> date and port revision (to 2), but I'm not sure if it can detect all >>> relevant partition types yet. It detects my BSD UFS partitions, but not >>> my Windows 7 NTFS partitions, and it would probably also need ZFS >>> detection. >> >> I can confirm that it builds and install on amd64 again. > > Sure enough - I'd tested that on my amd64 Tinderbox. :) > >> Newer partition types are not known to sysutils/gpart. For me it is a >> useful tools to repair (older) servers with Win2000 or something like >> that. In some cases it was the only tool, which was able to reconstruct >> destroyed partition tables. > > Sounds reasonable. Could you test the amd64 version on some of the disks and > see if it guesses reasonable partition tables, and finds existing partitions, > too? I don't trust it yet, as there has been quite a bit of C integer data > type abuse in the source code when, even ten years ago, > /usr/include/inttypes.h existed... although the source code isn't all bad. > > I've fixed more than one "unsigned long" instance to uint32_t but didn't have > time yet to look deeper to see, for instance, if all the block structures are > 2^N (for N typically 9) bytes tall. > > An alternative appears to be <http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk>; > (GPL'd), but I haven't looked closer, but the list of supported file systems > is longer and comprises newer NTFS and exFAT, but not zfs/zpool either. > >>>> If someone is willing to update the port: I have an original tarball >>>> 'gpart-0.1h.tar.gz'. It would need a new home ;-) >>> >>> Is that tarball different from what's on sunsite and currently fetched >>> by the port? >> >> I compared it against my old distfile and all seems fine: >> >> ls -l old/gpart-0.1h.tar.gz new/gpart-0.1h.tar.gz >> 52357 15 Feb 19:24:06 2001 old/gpart-0.1h.tar.gz >> 52357 15 Feb 19:24:06 2001 new/gpart-0.1h.tar.gz >> >> SHA256 (old/gpart-0.1h.tar.gz) = >> b542bceb1a778c719304dadae5dbc2a8bd7f195c06774933e7255b98cfa46ee3 >> SHA256 (new/gpart-0.1h.tar.gz) = >> b542bceb1a778c719304dadae5dbc2a8bd7f195c06774933e7255b98cfa46ee3 >> >> The updated port is still marked as deprecated. Do you plan to change >> this back? > > Thanks for the comparison. > > What I'd like to see happen for an un-deprecation is a united effort to > contact the former maintainer about his plans and situation, and else a > coordination of the changes that other distributors may have added, too, so > as to create a unified effort. > > Basically we'd need a maintainer for the port and possibly for the upstream > code, too, but I don't plan to sign up for yet another maintainership. > > However, I don't have strong feelings about this either way. > > Original author Bcc'd. > > Just for reference I did a distfile search for this and it came up in quite a few interesting places including fc14 that isn't really that old. Attached is the result for the search. -- Regards, J. 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