On 07/27/2011 11:23 PM, Steven J. Yellin wrote:
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Yasha Karant wrote:
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Is it safe to do the merry chase down the dependency trail to port a
later parted to SL 6 or will some of these cause SL 6 to fail/become
unstable? Does anyone have a SL 6 port of either parted or gparted
that is more recent than the stock SL 6 versions?
You asked about SL6, but my experience with SL5 may be relevant. The
stock SL5 parted wouldn't make a label on a 3TB WD USB drive (4096 byte
sectors), so I compiled what was then the latest version, parted-2.4,
from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/. There were no absent dependencies,
installation put the result into /usr/local/sbin, leaving the stock
version alone, and the compiled version was adequate. They're up to
parted-3.0 now.
Steven Yellin
I tried your suggested approach first but did not mention this in my
posting. Below is the failure from configure of parted-3.0 on SL 6 :
checking for uuid_generate in -luuid... no
configure: error: GNU Parted requires libuuid - a part of the
util-linux-ng package (but
usually distributed separately in libuuid-devel, uuid-dev or similar)
This can probably be found on your distribution's CD or FTP site or at:
http://userweb.kernel.org/~kzak/util-linux-ng/
Note: originally, libuuid was part of the e2fsprogs package. Later, it
moved to util-linux-ng-2.16, and that package is now the preferred source.
End output.
I was going to start chasing down the above dependencies, but instead
attempted the Fedora path -- and again faced a chase as I previously
have noted. If I install / build the various parts that parted-3.0
requires, will I break SL 6? One option is to build (configure, make)
all of the parts without make install and customize the configure/make
paths in each component to find the parts in non-standard locations so
as not to "clobber" the stock SL 6 components.
Does anyone have a parted-3.0 ported to SL 6?
Yasha Karant
