Bug 907607

Summary:	sys-libs/libblockdev: should (conditionally?) depend on sys-apps/gptfdisk
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Christian Strahl <c.a.strahl>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Marek Szuba (RETIRED) <marecki>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	slashbeast
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/62757
See Also:	https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/62749
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Christian Strahl 2023-06-01 08:26:11 UTC

Certain udisk2 operations (eg creating luks-encrypted ext4 volumes) require libblockdev to have access to the sgdisk utility, which is part of sys-apps/gptfdisk.



Reproducible: Always




See the following URLs for details:

A bug report for the same bug I was facing:
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/62749

The solution for the problem:
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/62757

Comment 1 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev

2023-06-12 23:22:23 UTC

The bug has been closed via the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=21e66ff7cdbf98a1179eb49e9242b1a73a0eb6ac

commit 21e66ff7cdbf98a1179eb49e9242b1a73a0eb6ac
Author:     Marek Szuba <marecki@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: 2023-06-12 20:54:44 +0000
Commit:     Marek Szuba <marecki@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2023-06-12 23:22:12 +0000

    sys-libs/libblockdev: RDEPEND on sys-apps/gptfdisk
    
    Needed for certain GPT-related operation currently not supported by
    parted.
    
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/907607
    Signed-off-by: Marek Szuba <marecki@gentoo.org>

 sys-libs/libblockdev/libblockdev-2.28-r2.ebuild | 136 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 136 insertions(+)