app-laptop/laptop-mode-tools-1.71-r1 complains about sys-apps/hdparm not being installed upon starting: "ERROR: hdparm not installed". I therefore request that sys-apps/hdparm be added as a dependency to >=app-laptop/laptop-mode-tools-1.71-r1
Hi, When do you get that? Not during installation, right? There are lots of utilities laptop_mode_tools requires, we do not want to force them if not actually used. hdparm is long retired as libata in kernel is providing scsi interface. Maybe I should also change ASSUME_SCSI_IS_SATA=0 as default.
Hi, sorry for the late reply, I seem to have forgotten to add myself to the CC-list. No, it's not during install, just during start and stop of laptop-mode-tools. If it's harmless then I suppose there is indeed no point in forcing an extra dependency. I merely thought that laptop-mode-tools might not work at all if it was missing hdparm. The way the error message is printed makes it seem rather serious.
I can confirm the same message happening on 1.72.2. Quick grep suggests that the error line is in /usr/share/laptop-mode-tools/modules/hdparm:209. Surrounding code suggests that either hdparm or sdparm (also dependent on the drive type operated on) is required to change drive power management. Additionally Arch wiki (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Laptop_Mode_Tools#Hard_disks) claims that either sdparm or hdparm is required to control drive spin up / down.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=692632c4e1fd984551915af8a658c558ce39c7b5 commit 692632c4e1fd984551915af8a658c558ce39c7b5 Author: Alon Bar-Lev <alonbl@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2018-09-01 07:17:40 +0000 Commit: Alon Bar-Lev <alonbl@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2018-09-01 07:20:33 +0000 app-laptop/laptop-mode-tools: re-add sdparm/hdparm dependency Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=644920 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.40, Repoman-2.3.9 app-laptop/laptop-mode-tools/laptop-mode-tools-1.72.2.ebuild | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
