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
