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http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/sys-apps/util-linux/util-linux-2.12i-r1.ebuild?rev=1.11&view=markup |
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Yes, it has been removed. |
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The comment in the the bug report talks about "Ancient Cruft" :) |
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And to match files with packages the debian repository has been a good friend |
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to me. It's no rocket science but it does the job for most cases. |
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http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_contents |
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On Saturday 12 November 2005 08:30, Duncan wrote: |
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> I'm finally getting around to some stale binaries cleanup, after a disk |
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> problem this summer had me back on an old /usr, with incorrect portage |
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> data. I was able to emerge almost everything to current using |
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> --emptytree, and from binpkg, as I've been running FEATURES=buildpkg for |
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> some time (and what I didn't have a binpkg for were small packages, |
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> luckily), but that left some stale files around. |
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> |
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> I've just spent several hours running a "for $file in *; do equery b |
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> $file; done" in one konsole tab, while running an mc in another console |
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> tab to delete stuff that didn't show up as belonging to anything. |
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> |
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> So around comes /usr/sbin, and I find rdev and the symlinks pointing to it |
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> aren't listed as belonging to anything. I don't want to get rid of them |
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> as they occasionally come in handy, particularly for checking a setting |
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> in the existing kernel (new ones are easy enough to build if I want to |
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> change it, but for a quick look, rdev and friends are nice), but I don't |
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> know what Gentoo package they belong to. |
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> |
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> A google-linux says on most distributions, they are (or were, the info |
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> could be dated) part of util-linux. However, double-checking here, they |
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> aren't part of the current util-linux package (2.12r-r1) I have merged. |
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> What package now contains them (emerge -p rdev says no such package, |
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> esearch doesn't return anything either, even with -S), or is it a bug in |
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> the ebuild or on my system that failed to get them? |
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> |
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> ... I still have the manpages for them, too, just not a package I can |
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> (re)merge to hook the files back up with the portage database. |
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> |
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> ... Or is rdev no longer supposed to be usable with kernel 2.6 and it has |
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> been removed? If so, that's a shame! ... |
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> |
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> -- |
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> Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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> "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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> and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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> http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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