[gentoo-amd64] Orphaned files: /usr/sbin/rdev, vidmode, etc, what package?

[gentoo-amd64] Orphaned files: /usr/sbin/rdev, vidmode, etc, what package?

[Duncan]

I'm finally getting around to some stale binaries cleanup, after a disk
problem this summer had me back on an old /usr, with incorrect portage
data.  I was able to emerge almost everything to current using
--emptytree, and from binpkg, as I've been running FEATURES=buildpkg for
some time (and what I didn't have a binpkg for were small packages,
luckily), but that left some stale files around.

I've just spent several hours running a "for $file in *; do equery b
$file; done" in one konsole tab, while running an mc in another console
tab to delete stuff that didn't show up as belonging to anything.

So around comes /usr/sbin, and I find rdev and the symlinks pointing to it
aren't listed as belonging to anything.  I don't want to get rid of them
as they occasionally come in handy, particularly for checking a setting
in the existing kernel (new ones are easy enough to build if I want to
change it, but for a quick look, rdev and friends are nice), but I don't
know what Gentoo package they belong to.

A google-linux says on most distributions, they are (or were, the info
could be dated) part of util-linux.  However, double-checking here, they
aren't part of the current util-linux package (2.12r-r1) I have merged. 
What package now contains them (emerge -p rdev says no such package,
esearch doesn't return anything either, even with -S), or is it a bug in
the ebuild or on my system that failed to get them?

...  I still have the manpages for them, too, just not a package I can
(re)merge to hook the files back up with the portage database.

... Or is rdev no longer supposed to be usable with kernel 2.6 and it has
been removed?  If so, that's a shame!  ...

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Orphaned files: /usr/sbin/rdev, vidmode, etc, what package?

[Harm Geerts]

http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/sys-apps/util-linux/util-linux-2.12i-r1.ebuild?rev=1.11&view=markup
Yes, it has been removed.
The comment in the the bug report talks about "Ancient Cruft" :)

And to match files with packages the debian repository has been a good friend 
to me. It's no rocket science but it does the job for most cases.
http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_contents

On Saturday 12 November 2005 08:30, Duncan wrote:
> I'm finally getting around to some stale binaries cleanup, after a disk
> problem this summer had me back on an old /usr, with incorrect portage
> data.  I was able to emerge almost everything to current using
> --emptytree, and from binpkg, as I've been running FEATURES=buildpkg for
> some time (and what I didn't have a binpkg for were small packages,
> luckily), but that left some stale files around.
>
> I've just spent several hours running a "for $file in *; do equery b
> $file; done" in one konsole tab, while running an mc in another console
> tab to delete stuff that didn't show up as belonging to anything.
>
> So around comes /usr/sbin, and I find rdev and the symlinks pointing to it
> aren't listed as belonging to anything.  I don't want to get rid of them
> as they occasionally come in handy, particularly for checking a setting
> in the existing kernel (new ones are easy enough to build if I want to
> change it, but for a quick look, rdev and friends are nice), but I don't
> know what Gentoo package they belong to.
>
> A google-linux says on most distributions, they are (or were, the info
> could be dated) part of util-linux.  However, double-checking here, they
> aren't part of the current util-linux package (2.12r-r1) I have merged.
> What package now contains them (emerge -p rdev says no such package,
> esearch doesn't return anything either, even with -S), or is it a bug in
> the ebuild or on my system that failed to get them?
>
> ...  I still have the manpages for them, too, just not a package I can
> (re)merge to hook the files back up with the portage database.
>
> ... Or is rdev no longer supposed to be usable with kernel 2.6 and it has
> been removed?  If so, that's a shame!  ...
>
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> Duncan - List replies preferred.   No HTML msgs.
> "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
> and if you use the program, he is your master."  Richard Stallman in
> http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Orphaned files: /usr/sbin/rdev, vidmode, etc, what package?

[David Guerizec]

On Saturday 12 November 2005 20:34, Harm Geerts wrote:
> And to match files with packages the debian repository has been a good
> friend to me. It's no rocket science but it does the job for most cases.
> http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_contents

You also have the Portage File Search (posted here a few days ago, IIRC):

http://www.rommel.stw.uni-erlangen.de/~fejf/pfs/


Best regards,

David.
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[gentoo-amd64] Re: Orphaned files: /usr/sbin/rdev, vidmode, etc, what package?

[Duncan]

Harm Geerts posted <200511122034.40523.harmgeerts@home.nl>, excerpted
below,  on Sat, 12 Nov 2005 20:34:40 +0100:

> http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/sys-apps/util-linux/util-linux-2.12i-r1.ebuild?rev=1.11&view=markup
> Yes, it has been removed.
> The comment in the the bug report talks about "Ancient Cruft" :)

Bug report?  Not @ viewcvs.  Besides, the man page calls it "Ancient
Cruft" too, but it's still USEFUL cruft!  

Just the other day, I used it to see what I'm actually compiling into the
kernel these days for video mode.  I run a patch (applied automatically
by a script I have that verifies the gpg sigs, moves the tarball and sig
file from my download dir to my kernel tarball dir, unpacks it, changes
the /usr/src/linux symlink, applies a couple useful patches, mounts
/boot so my current config is available, runs make oldconfig, and
unmounts /boot, all with one command, a second script builds and installs
the kernel) to change the kernel default, so I don't have to append it to
the kernel command line, and I /could/ have looked up the patch, but it
was easier to run vidmode on my current kernel to see what it was.

Oh, well, it's not a serious issue, just something useful to have around
on occasion.

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Orphaned files: /usr/sbin/rdev, vidmode, etc, what package?

[Harm Geerts]

On Sunday 13 November 2005 14:39, Duncan wrote:
> Bug report?  Not @ viewcvs.  Besides, the man page calls it "Ancient
> Cruft" too, but it's still USEFUL cruft!
The changelog of that revision mentions the bugreport.
I'm not making it up I swear :)
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