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From: Harm Geerts <harmgeerts@××××.nl>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Orphaned files: /usr/sbin/rdev, vidmode, etc, what package?
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 19:36:19
Message-Id: 200511122034.40523.harmgeerts@home.nl
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] Orphaned files: /usr/sbin/rdev, vidmode, etc, what package? by Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
1 http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/sys-apps/util-linux/util-linux-2.12i-r1.ebuild?rev=1.11&view=markup
2 Yes, it has been removed.
3 The comment in the the bug report talks about "Ancient Cruft" :)
4
5 And to match files with packages the debian repository has been a good friend
6 to me. It's no rocket science but it does the job for most cases.
7 http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_contents
8
9 On Saturday 12 November 2005 08:30, Duncan wrote:
10 > I'm finally getting around to some stale binaries cleanup, after a disk
11 > problem this summer had me back on an old /usr, with incorrect portage
12 > data. I was able to emerge almost everything to current using
13 > --emptytree, and from binpkg, as I've been running FEATURES=buildpkg for
14 > some time (and what I didn't have a binpkg for were small packages,
15 > luckily), but that left some stale files around.
16 >
17 > I've just spent several hours running a "for $file in *; do equery b
18 > $file; done" in one konsole tab, while running an mc in another console
19 > tab to delete stuff that didn't show up as belonging to anything.
20 >
21 > So around comes /usr/sbin, and I find rdev and the symlinks pointing to it
22 > aren't listed as belonging to anything. I don't want to get rid of them
23 > as they occasionally come in handy, particularly for checking a setting
24 > in the existing kernel (new ones are easy enough to build if I want to
25 > change it, but for a quick look, rdev and friends are nice), but I don't
26 > know what Gentoo package they belong to.
27 >
28 > A google-linux says on most distributions, they are (or were, the info
29 > could be dated) part of util-linux. However, double-checking here, they
30 > aren't part of the current util-linux package (2.12r-r1) I have merged.
31 > What package now contains them (emerge -p rdev says no such package,
32 > esearch doesn't return anything either, even with -S), or is it a bug in
33 > the ebuild or on my system that failed to get them?
34 >
35 > ... I still have the manpages for them, too, just not a package I can
36 > (re)merge to hook the files back up with the portage database.
37 >
38 > ... Or is rdev no longer supposed to be usable with kernel 2.6 and it has
39 > been removed? If so, that's a shame! ...
40 >
41 > --
42 > Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs.
43 > "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
44 > and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in
45 > http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html
46 --
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