[gentoo-dev] QA last rites for sys-fs/dd-rhelp
# Diego E. Pettenò flamee...@gentoo.org (22 Oct 2010) # on behalf of QA team # # Outdated even by upstream standards (last version is 0.1.2, # bug #223299 open May 2008); uses obsolete head/tail syntax # (bug #159606); has maintainer-mode-triggered rebuild (bug # #318487) without depending on autotools (and thus fail if # automake 1.8 is not installed). # # Removal on 2010-12-21 sys-fs/dd-rhelp
[gentoo-dev] QA last rites for sys-fs/dd-rhelp
# Diego E. Pettenò flamee...@gentoo.org (22 Oct 2010) # on behalf of QA team # # Obsolete even by upstream standard, since version 0.1.2 # is out since 2007 (and has a version bump request in bug # #223299 since May 2008); uses “obsolete” tail/head # syntax (bug #159606, the warning has since been removed # from coreutils); more importantly autotools are rebuilt by # a maintainer-mode-triggered check, but no dependency over # autotools, with or without the correct version is present # (bug #318487; automake 1.8 is nowadays not that common to # find installed). # # Removal on 2010-12-21 sys-fs/dd-rhelp
Re: [gentoo-dev] QA last rites for sys-fs/dd-rhelp
Hi,
while this is a tool i never like to use, it's really hand in case you
have it around.
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 09:23:30AM +0200, Diego E. Pettenò wrote:
# Obsolete even by upstream standard, since version 0.1.2
# is out since 2007 (and has a version bump request in bug
# #223299 since May 2008);
Agreed.
uses ???obsolete??? tail/head
# syntax (bug #159606, the warning has since been removed
# from coreutils);
in dd_rhelp-0.1.2: # grep head dd_rhelp
i=$(echo $parsechunk | ${head} -n 1 )
firstline=$(echo $parsing | ${head} -n 1)
firstline=$(echo $parsing | ${head} -n 1)
lnb_save=$(echo $lnb_save | ${head} -n 1 | cut -f 1 -d )
That seems to be the new syntax already.
more importantly autotools are rebuilt by
# a maintainer-mode-triggered check, but no dependency over
# autotools, with or without the correct version is present
# (bug #318487; automake 1.8 is nowadays not that common to
# find installed).
Also from 0.1.2:
Installation (for dd_rhelp 0.1.0)
===
Installation process have been greatly simplified with version
0.1.0 as
it as been completely removed ! Removing the previous hassle of the
./configure make make install normally reserved for
languages that requires compilation.
So for version superior to 0.1.0, installation is only a mean of a
direct
use of dd_rhelp, or a simple cp dd_rhelp /your/bin/path.
So basically 0.1.2 should fix all those problems.
I'd do it myself if i were ebuild maintainer (which i am not), but
maybe someone could pick this up and just make a new ebuild for 0.1.2?
Seems to be a quite simple job and whoever is willing to save this
really useful tool will get a beer from me next Linuxtag :-)
cheers,
Wernfried
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Re: [gentoo-dev] QA last rites for sys-fs/dd-rhelp
On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 16:50:21 +0200 Wernfried Haas a...@gentoo.org wrote: I'd do it myself if i were ebuild maintainer (which i am not), but maybe someone could pick this up and just make a new ebuild for 0.1.2? Seems to be a quite simple job and whoever is willing to save this really useful tool will get a beer from me next Linuxtag :-) I don't think there's a reason to do so. We have ddrescue, and users should be encouraged to migrate to that. -- Best regards, Michał Górny signature.asc Description: PGP signature
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On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 05:36:08PM +0200, Micha?? Górny wrote: I don't think there's a reason to do so. We have ddrescue, and users should be encouraged to migrate to that. Ah, found it (sys-fs/ddrescue, not sys-fs/dd-rescue) and it actually does all the stuff that dd-rhelp does. I guess in that case it's a good idea to let dd-rhelp go (probably with a note to people like me who aren't aware that ddrescue does the same job these days). Thank you for the information. Cheers, Wernfried -- Wernfried Haas (amne) - amne (at) gentoo.org Gentoo Forums - http://forums.gentoo.org forum-mods (at) gentoo.org #gentoo-forums (freenode) pgpzLsvATfPGm.pgp Description: PGP signature
