Bug 378069 – sys-apps/hdparm: install wiper script

• Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Klaus Kusche 2011-08-07 11:49:18 UTC]

Could we please have an ebuild for the SATA "wiper" tool
(which trims SSD's).

Download URL:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/hdparm/files/

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 poletti.marco 2012-11-21 10:56:24 UTC]

The wiper script is now provided by the `hdparm' ebuild.

[Comment 2 Klaus Kusche 2012-11-25 09:07:39 UTC]

Hmmm, I'm not entirely happy:

* It goes to /usr/share/doc/hdparm-9.43/wiper/
- That dir is not in the PATH, not even in the PATH of root.
- ".../doc/..." is not the path where one would look for a command.
  Moreover, execute permissions are strictly forbidden in /usr/share/doc.
- This path changes with every version of hdparm,
  which means one has to change its aliases, admin scripts or whatever
  when hdparm is updated.

* It is auto-compressed to wiper.sh.bz2 by emerge,
  which means it has to be unpacked before being useable.

[Comment 3 Sergey Popov 2013-01-15 16:45:30 UTC]

Reassigning this, cause this is not about new package

[Comment 4 Klaus Kusche 2013-02-24 10:00:06 UTC]

Status?

[Comment 5 SpanKY 2013-04-27 09:14:44 UTC]

bug 433147 installs the wiper script into the contrib tree

bug 444143 explains why this will *not* be installed into $PATH