On 07/27/2011 11:23 PM, Steven J. Yellin wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Yasha Karant wrote:
>> ...
>> 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