On 07/28/2011 12:48 AM, Yasha Karant wrote:
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
Have you considered using a live CD of one of the fedora versions (I
prefer F13 for that, but maybe it would have a problem with those drives
too, so perhaps F14 or 15) to do the partitioning and then do the SL
install? I've had to use that method in the past with Seagate drives.
Just a thought to keep you out of dep hell.
There is also the new parted magic live CD that may be better than
Fedora because the tools are already in the distro.
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=partedmagic
