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Bug 115166 - Missing mt tool in Gentoo LiveCD 2005.1
Summary: Missing mt tool in Gentoo LiveCD 2005.1
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Release Media
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Everything (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Release Team
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Reported: 2005-12-11 01:49 UTC by .:deadhead:.
Modified: 2006-03-17 08:09 UTC (History)
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Description .:deadhead:. 2005-12-11 01:49:56 UTC 
In Gentoo LiveCD release 2005.1-r1 there's no MT, so it's not possible to access
to tapes. Please can you add this usefull tool?

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-12-12 09:09:04 UTC 
What package is it in?
Comment 2 .:deadhead:. 2005-12-12 10:05:53 UTC 
*  app-arch/mt-st
      Latest version available: 0.7-r1
      Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
      Size of downloaded files: 34 kB
      Homepage:    http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/
      Description: Enhanced mt command for Linux, supporting Linux 2.4 ioctls
      License:     GPL-2

I have to rectify my bugreport :-P MT is not necessary to access to tapes but
it's really usefull tool if you have to work with tapes.
Comment 3 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-03-17 08:09:00 UTC 
Fixed in 2006.0 LiveCD (both x86 and amd64)