Make it possible to specify partition number

[traylenator]

Currently with a partitions configuration of say:

<type image="oem" bootpartition="false" filesystem="xfs" kernelcmdline="console=ttyS0" firmware="uefi" format="qcow2">
            <size unit="G">5</size>
            <oemconfig>
                <oem-swap>true</oem-swap>
                <oem-swapsize>512</oem-swapsize>
                <oem-resize>false</oem-resize>
            </oemconfig>
            <bootloader name="grub2" console="serial" timeout="10"/>
            <partitions>
                <partition name="var" size="1G" mountpoint="/var" filesystem="ext3"/>
            </partitions>
            <systemdisk>
                <volume name="home" freespace="all"/>
            </systemdisk>
        </type>

It is not possible to end up with partition numbers other than 1, 2 , 3, ...

Someone in the past decided to make root partitions be partition 1 in our images and it is now expected.

virt-filesystems --parts -a build/10-alma/alma10.x86_64-0.0.0.raw
/dev/sda1
/dev/sda14
/dev/sda15

and

Number  Start (sector)    End (sector)  Size       Code  Name
   1         1128448        41943006   19.5 GiB    8300  
  14            2048           10239   4.0 MiB     EF02  
  15           10240         1126400   545.0 MiB   EF00  EFI System Partition

Would be good if a "number" attribute could be added to <partition name="var" size="1G" mountpoint="/var" filesystem="ext3"/>

For workaround we are currently:

sgdisk --transpose 1:14 "$disk_device"
sgdisk --transpose 2:15 "$disk_device"
sgdisk --transpose 3:1 "$disk_device" 

in an editbootconfig script which is working find but handling internally would be great.

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