[gentoo-user] Generic "What installed this?"

[gentoo-user] Generic "What installed this?"

[Mark Knecht]

Hi ho,
   What program do I run to determine what emerge operation installed
something on the system, in this specific case /etc/init.d/serial? I
guessed it would be equery but that didn't work.

dragonfly ~ # equery b /etc/init.d/serial
[ Searching for file(s) /etc/init.d/serial in *... ]
dragonfly ~ #

   qpkg didn't seem to go backward from a file name.

   What other program can I run to discover that?

Thanks,
Mark

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Re: [gentoo-user] Generic "What installed this?"

[kashani]

Mark Knecht wrote:
> Hi ho,
>    What program do I run to determine what emerge operation installed
> something on the system, in this specific case /etc/init.d/serial? I
> guessed it would be equery but that didn't work.
> 
> dragonfly ~ # equery b /etc/init.d/serial
> [ Searching for file(s) /etc/init.d/serial in *... ]
> dragonfly ~ #
> 
>    qpkg didn't seem to go backward from a file name.
> 
>    What other program can I run to discover that?
> 

qpkg seems to work okay for me.

laxlxns02 ~ # qpkg -f /etc/init.d/serial
sys-apps/baselayout *

kashani
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Re: [gentoo-user] Generic "What installed this?"

[Mark Knecht]

On 7/8/05, kashani <kashani-list@badapple.net> wrote:
> Mark Knecht wrote:
> > Hi ho,
> >    What program do I run to determine what emerge operation installed
> > something on the system, in this specific case /etc/init.d/serial? I
> > guessed it would be equery but that didn't work.
> >
> > dragonfly ~ # equery b /etc/init.d/serial
> > [ Searching for file(s) /etc/init.d/serial in *... ]
> > dragonfly ~ #
> >
> >    qpkg didn't seem to go backward from a file name.
> >
> >    What other program can I run to discover that?
> >
> 
> qpkg seems to work okay for me.
> 
> laxlxns02 ~ # qpkg -f /etc/init.d/serial
> sys-apps/baselayout *
> 
> kashani

My bad. I misread the the qpkg --help info page.

Thanks!

- Mark

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Re: [gentoo-user] Generic "What installed this?"

[Mark Knecht]

On 7/8/05, kashani <kashani-list@badapple.net> wrote:
> Mark Knecht wrote:
> > Hi ho,
> >    What program do I run to determine what emerge operation installed
> > something on the system, in this specific case /etc/init.d/serial? I
> > guessed it would be equery but that didn't work.
> >
> > dragonfly ~ # equery b /etc/init.d/serial
> > [ Searching for file(s) /etc/init.d/serial in *... ]
> > dragonfly ~ #
> >
> >    qpkg didn't seem to go backward from a file name.
> >
> >    What other program can I run to discover that?
> >
> 
> qpkg seems to work okay for me.
> 
> laxlxns02 ~ # qpkg -f /etc/init.d/serial
> sys-apps/baselayout *
> 
> kashani
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> 

I spoke too quickly. qpkg -f returns nothing for /etc/init.d/serial:

dragonfly ~ # ls -al /etc/init.d/serial
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 1104 Mar 11 09:57 /etc/init.d/serial
dragonfly ~ # qpkg -f /etc/init.d/serial
dragonfly ~ #

and qpkg -l doesn't show 'serial' as being installed by baselayout:

dragonfly ~ # qpkg -l sys-apps/baselayout | grep serial
dragonfly ~ #

I use the ~x86 version of baselayout. You are probably not I suspect?

Thanks,
Mark

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Re: [gentoo-user] Generic "What installed this?"

[Edward Catmur]

On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 15:48 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On 7/8/05, kashani <kashani-list@badapple.net> wrote:
> > Mark Knecht wrote:
> > > Hi ho,
> > >    What program do I run to determine what emerge operation installed
> > > something on the system, in this specific case /etc/init.d/serial? I
> > > guessed it would be equery but that didn't work.
>
> I spoke too quickly. qpkg -f returns nothing for /etc/init.d/serial:
> 
> dragonfly ~ # ls -al /etc/init.d/serial
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 1104 Mar 11 09:57 /etc/init.d/serial
> dragonfly ~ # qpkg -f /etc/init.d/serial
> dragonfly ~ #

The CVS header on /etc/init.d/serial shows that it is from the
rc-scripts module on gentoo cvs, and rc-scripts is distributed as part
of baselayout indeed.

However it is not installed by baselayout-1.11.12-r4, and in fact it
does nothing as /etc/serial.conf does not exist, so is safe to delete -
but make sure (a) you aren't using it (check /etc/serial.conf) and (b)
you remove it from all runlevels.

Ed

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Re: [gentoo-user] Generic "What installed this?"

[Rumen Yotov]

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Edward Catmur wrote:

>On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 15:48 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
>  
>
>>On 7/8/05, kashani <kashani-list@badapple.net> wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>Mark Knecht wrote:
>>>      
>>>
>>>>Hi ho,
>>>>   What program do I run to determine what emerge operation installed
>>>>something on the system, in this specific case /etc/init.d/serial? I
>>>>guessed it would be equery but that didn't work.
>>>>        
>>>>
>>I spoke too quickly. qpkg -f returns nothing for /etc/init.d/serial:
>>
>>dragonfly ~ # ls -al /etc/init.d/serial
>>-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 1104 Mar 11 09:57 /etc/init.d/serial
>>dragonfly ~ # qpkg -f /etc/init.d/serial
>>dragonfly ~ #
>>    
>>
>
>The CVS header on /etc/init.d/serial shows that it is from the
>rc-scripts module on gentoo cvs, and rc-scripts is distributed as part
>of baselayout indeed.
>
>However it is not installed by baselayout-1.11.12-r4, and in fact it
>does nothing as /etc/serial.conf does not exist, so is safe to delete -
>but make sure (a) you aren't using it (check /etc/serial.conf) and (b)
>you remove it from all runlevels.
>
>Ed
>
>  
>
Hi,
Previously when i went to baselayout-1.11.12-rX, on startup received a
warning about missing "serial" something.
So just to be on the safe side re-emerged "setserial" and forgot about
this warning. It's: "sys-apps/setserial".
Also think that i don't need serial, but will check this later (when
have enough time ;).
HTH. Rumen

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Re: [gentoo-user] Generic "What installed this?"

[Richard Fish]

Mark Knecht wrote:

>I use the ~x86 version of baselayout. You are probably not I suspect?
>
>  
>

Hi Mark,

Yep, /etc/init.d/serial is gone in the ~x86 version of baselayout.

Note that there is a particular "problem" with /etc/init.d.  Since it is
in /etc, it falls under the CONFIG_PROTECT scheme of not removing
"configuration" files when a package gets updated/removed.  You may want
to add the following to /etc/make.conf:

CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/init.d"

This will let portage remove init scripts when they are no longer used. 
But it also means that if you make customizations to the init scripts,
they can be overwritten without going through etc-update.

-Richard

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