[PATCH 1/2] wic: remove gptfdisk dependency

[PATCH 1/2] wic: remove gptfdisk dependency

[Ross Burton]

Originally, wic needed gptfdisk because it ran the sgdisk command. But
wic has used sfdisk from util-linux (which is scriptable and supports
GPT, two defining characteristics of sgdisk) since 2024[1] and no longer
calls sgdisk (or any other commands from gptfdisk).

This commit has always been in the split-out wic, and was part of oe-core
from walnascar onwards.

Remove the dependency on gptfdisk from the wic recipe and the test image
wic-image-minimal.bb.

[1] wic 518dea0 ("wic: add WIC_SECTOR_SIZE variable")

Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@arm.com>

wic-image-minimal: remove gptfdisk-native dependency

As with the previous commit, wic no longer calls gptdisk.
---
 meta-selftest/recipes-test/images/wic-image-minimal.bb | 2 +-
 meta/recipes-support/wic/wic_0.3.1.bb                  | 1 -
 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/meta-selftest/recipes-test/images/wic-image-minimal.bb b/meta-selftest/recipes-test/images/wic-image-minimal.bb
index 89843d9b3ca..1c6455bb6be 100644
--- a/meta-selftest/recipes-test/images/wic-image-minimal.bb
+++ b/meta-selftest/recipes-test/images/wic-image-minimal.bb
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ IMAGE_INSTALL = "packagegroup-core-boot"
 
 IMAGE_FSTYPES = "wic"
 
-WKS_FILE_DEPENDS = "dosfstools-native mtools-native gptfdisk-native"
+WKS_FILE_DEPENDS = "dosfstools-native mtools-native"
 WKS_FILE_DEPENDS:append:x86 = " syslinux-native syslinux"
 WKS_FILE_DEPENDS:append:x86-64 = " syslinux-native syslinux"
 WKS_FILE_DEPENDS:append:x86-x32 = " syslinux-native syslinux"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/wic/wic_0.3.1.bb b/meta/recipes-support/wic/wic_0.3.1.bb
index 116b0a2cd29..308389c183d 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/wic/wic_0.3.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/wic/wic_0.3.1.bb
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ RDEPENDS:${PN} += " \
     python3-logging \
     python3-misc \
     parted \
-    gptfdisk \
     dosfstools \
     mtools \
     bmaptool \
-- 
2.43.0

[PATCH 2/2] gptfdisk: remove recipe

[Ross Burton]

There are no dependencies on this recipe in oe-core or meta-oe now, as
the standard fdisk command in util-linux has both a scriptable frontend
and supports GPT partition tables.

Also the last release was in 2024 and there's very little activity
upstream.

As such, remove the recipe.

Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@arm.com>
---
 meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc      |  1 -
 ...gptcurses-correctly-include-curses.h.patch | 27 --------------
 .../recipes-devtools/fdisk/gptfdisk_1.0.10.bb | 35 -------------------
 3 files changed, 63 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 meta/recipes-devtools/fdisk/gptfdisk/0001-gptcurses-correctly-include-curses.h.patch
 delete mode 100644 meta/recipes-devtools/fdisk/gptfdisk_1.0.10.bb

diff --git a/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc b/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
index c5b701c2447..f30aa06e15d 100644
--- a/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
+++ b/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
@@ -242,7 +242,6 @@ RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-go-runtime = "Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-gobject-introspection = "Unassigned <unassigned@yoctoproject.org>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-gperf = "Unassigned <unassigned@yoctoproject.org>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-gpgme = "Hongxu Jia <hongxu.jia@windriver.com>"
-RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-gptfdisk = "Unassigned <unassigned@yoctoproject.org>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-graphene = "Markus Volk <f_l_k@t-online.de>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-grep = "Denys Dmytriyenko <denis@denix.org>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-groff = "Hongxu Jia <hongxu.jia@windriver.com>"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/fdisk/gptfdisk/0001-gptcurses-correctly-include-curses.h.patch b/meta/recipes-devtools/fdisk/gptfdisk/0001-gptcurses-correctly-include-curses.h.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 011eec36f98..00000000000
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/fdisk/gptfdisk/0001-gptcurses-correctly-include-curses.h.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-From 510d0d27f90dfb1c4afd0722580bb8a828b52b7f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Alexander Kanavin <alex.kanavin@gmail.com>
-Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 17:11:19 +0200
-Subject: [PATCH] gptcurses: correctly include curses.h
-
-Upstream-Status: Inappropriate [oe-core specific]
-Signed-off-by: Alexander Kanavin <alex.kanavin@gmail.com>
----
- gptcurses.cc | 4 ----
- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
-
-diff --git a/gptcurses.cc b/gptcurses.cc
-index b476700..476fc43 100644
---- a/gptcurses.cc
-+++ b/gptcurses.cc
-@@ -23,11 +23,7 @@
- #include <iostream>
- #include <string>
- #include <sstream>
--#if defined (__APPLE__) || (__FreeBSD__)
- #include <ncurses.h>
--#else
--#include <ncursesw/ncurses.h>
--#endif
- #include "gptcurses.h"
- #include "support.h"
- 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/fdisk/gptfdisk_1.0.10.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/fdisk/gptfdisk_1.0.10.bb
deleted file mode 100644
index ba891931aca..00000000000
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/fdisk/gptfdisk_1.0.10.bb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
-SUMMARY = "Utility for modifying GPT disk partitioning"
-DESCRIPTION = "GPT fdisk is a disk partitioning tool loosely modeled on Linux fdisk, but used for modifying GUID Partition Table (GPT) disks. The related FixParts utility fixes some common problems on Master Boot Record (MBR) disks."
-HOMEPAGE = "https://sourceforge.net/projects/gptfdisk/"
-
-LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
-LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=59530bdf33659b29e73d4adb9f9f6552"
-
-DEPENDS = "util-linux"
-
-SRC_URI = "${SOURCEFORGE_MIRROR}/${BPN}/${PV}/${BP}.tar.gz \
-           file://0001-gptcurses-correctly-include-curses.h.patch \
-           "
-SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "2abed61bc6d2b9ec498973c0440b8b804b7a72d7144069b5a9209b2ad693a282"
-
-UPSTREAM_CHECK_URI = "http://sourceforge.net/projects/gptfdisk/files/gptfdisk/"
-UPSTREAM_CHECK_REGEX = "/gptfdisk/(?P<pver>(\d+[\.\-_]*)+)/"
-
-EXTRA_OEMAKE = "'CC=${CC}' 'CXX=${CXX}' gdisk fixparts ${PACKAGECONFIG_CONFARGS}"
-
-PACKAGECONFIG ??= "ncurses popt"
-PACKAGECONFIG[ncurses] = "cgdisk,,ncurses"
-PACKAGECONFIG[popt] = "sgdisk,,popt"
-
-do_install() {
-    install -d ${D}${sbindir}
-    for f in cgdisk sgdisk; do
-        if [ -x $f ]; then
-            install -m 0755 $f ${D}${sbindir}
-        fi
-    done
-    install -m 0755 gdisk ${D}${sbindir}
-    install -m 0755 fixparts ${D}${sbindir}
-}
-
-BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"
-- 
2.43.0

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 2/2] gptfdisk: remove recipe

[Mathieu Dubois-Briand]

On Tue Aug 11, 2026 at 5:36 PM CEST, Ross Burton via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> There are no dependencies on this recipe in oe-core or meta-oe now, as
> the standard fdisk command in util-linux has both a scriptable frontend
> and supports GPT partition tables.
>
> Also the last release was in 2024 and there's very little activity
> upstream.
>
> As such, remove the recipe.
>

And break the build :)

Looks like we do have a dependency on gptfdisk-native. Maybe this match
in meta-yocto?

meta-yocto-bsp/conf/machine/include/genericx86-common.inc:do_image_wic[depends] += "gptfdisk-native:do_populate_sysroot"

Here is the error:
ERROR: Nothing PROVIDES 'gptfdisk-native'. Close matches:
  gperf-native
  gtk+3-native
  gtk4-native
ERROR: Nothing RPROVIDES 'core-image-sato'
No eligible RPROVIDERs exist for 'core-image-sato'
NOTE: Runtime target 'core-image-sato' is unbuildable, removing...
Missing or unbuildable dependency chain was: ['core-image-sato']
ERROR: Nothing RPROVIDES 'core-image-sato-sdk'
No eligible RPROVIDERs exist for 'core-image-sato-sdk'
NOTE: Runtime target 'core-image-sato-sdk' is unbuildable, removing...
Missing or unbuildable dependency chain was: ['core-image-sato-sdk']
ERROR: Nothing RPROVIDES 'core-image-minimal'
No eligible RPROVIDERs exist for 'core-image-minimal'
NOTE: Runtime target 'core-image-minimal' is unbuildable, removing...
Missing or unbuildable dependency chain was: ['core-image-minimal']
ERROR: Nothing RPROVIDES 'core-image-full-cmdline'
No eligible RPROVIDERs exist for 'core-image-full-cmdline'
NOTE: Runtime target 'core-image-full-cmdline' is unbuildable, removing...
Missing or unbuildable dependency chain was: ['core-image-full-cmdline']

https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/4/builds/4388
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/19/builds/4362
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/65/builds/4336
...

Thanks,
Mathieu

-- 
Mathieu Dubois-Briand, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 2/2] gptfdisk: remove recipe

[Ross Burton]

On 11 Aug 2026, at 19:48, Mathieu Dubois-Briand <mathieu.dubois-briand@bootlin.com> wrote:
>> As such, remove the recipe.
> 
> And break the build :)
> 
> Looks like we do have a dependency on gptfdisk-native. Maybe this match
> in meta-yocto?

Sorry, I didn’t notice that one, patch just sent to poky@.

Ross