Please include tool to convert legacy partimage image files

Bug #200011 reported by Michael Biebl
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partimage-ng
In Progress
Undecided
Dmitry Ivanov

Bug Description

Hi,

while it is ok, if partimage-ng uses its own image format, and doesn't natively read and write partimage image files, it makes an upgrade from partimage almost impossible (if you have existing image files).

For this, as small helper utility, which converts legacy partimage image files into partimage-ng image files would be a awesome (I don't think the ability of downgrades is important).

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Dmitry Ivanov (vonami) wrote :

This way it would be hard to say what caused the bug if partimage-ng fails to restore a converted image file. But I agree that it's important to have the possibility to migrate from partimage so I'll take a look at this.

Changed in partimage-ng:
assignee: nobody → vonami
status: New → In Progress
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Michael Biebl (mbiebl) wrote :

The reason why I suggested to use a separate utility for this task is, that it wouldn't clutter partimage-ng with legacy code. You could easily drop this utility in the future, if it's not needed anymore (as everyone has upgraded to partimage-ng ;-) )

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