Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 2015-03-06-multilib

Chapter 12. System Utilities

UDisks-1.0.5

Introduction to UDisks

The UDisks package provides a storage daemon that implements well-defined D-Bus interfaces that can be used to query and manipulate storage devices.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.7 platform.

Package Information

udisks Dependencies

Required

dbus-glib-0.104, libatasmart-0.19, LVM2-2.02.116, parted-3.2, Polkit-0.112, sg3_utils-1.40, and udev-extras (from eudev) (for gudev)

Optional

GTK-Doc-1.21, libxslt-1.1.28 and Sudo-1.8.12 (to run the test)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/udisks

Installation of UDisks

Install UDisks by running the following commands: 

./configure --prefix=/usr        \
            --sysconfdir=/etc    \
            --localstatedir=/var &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user: 

make profiledir=/etc/bash_completion.d install

Command Explanations

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Contents

Installed Programs: udisks, udisks-daemon, udisks-tcp-bridge, and umount.udisks
Installed Libraries: None
Installed Directories: /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/udisks and /var/lib/udisks

Short Descriptions

udisks

is a simple command line interface for the UDisks Daemon.

udisks-tcp-bridge

is the UDisks TCP/IP bridge.

udisks-daemon

is the UDisks Daemon.

Last updated on 2015-02-26 20:29:00 -0500