On 4/2/19 2:12 PM, Laurence Perkins wrote: > > > On Mon, 2019-03-25 at 16:58 -0500, Dale wrote: >> Laurence Perkins wrote: >>>> You can get pin status with >>>> statserial /dev/ttyS9 >>>> >>> I hate to butt in, but statserial seems like it would be quite >>> useful... And yet I can't figure out which package it's in on >>> Gentoo. >>> It's not in setserial, doesn't have its own package, and isn't >>> discoverable via eix or pfl... Is there an ebuild hidden >>> somewhere? >>> Or do I need to hunt it down by hand? >>> >>> LMP >> >> I tried to figure out what package has it but am having no luck. I'm >> wondering if a USE flag is required to enable this to be included? >> If >> that USE flag is disabled by default, then it wouldn't be available >> on >> most systems unless someone knew what it was and enabled it. If it >> is a >> USE flag, I'm having no luck finding it either. >> >> Dale >> >> :-) :-) >> > > If you installed it via portage then doing: > qfile `which statserial` > should tell you what package it came from. > > If that finds nothing then it got installed by some other means and > probably isn't packaged for Gentoo. > > > LMP > >
This man page list the author(s). Might not be too difficult to roll an ebuild for it. It's under a gnu license. https://linux.die.net/man/1/statserial Vintage 1994:: https://boutell.com/lsm/lsmbyid.cgi/001600 https://linux.die.net/man/1/statserial hth, James

