On 11-07-27 11:48 PM, Yasha Karant wrote:
> 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?

I don't think you'll break SL if you install the required software from 
repos...

I was curious what else you might need so I downloaded gparted to see 
what the dependencies are, here's what I had to install:

yum install libuuid-devel device-mapper-devel readline-devel

These are all from SL repositories.

After I installed those, gparted 3.0 compiled fine :)

-Chris