kinfocenter's devices -> firmware security tab does not work due to lack of aha tool. Searching the main portage tree there are no such tools available. Package should be added to portage tree and kinfocenter should pull it in as a dependency. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open kinfocenter 2. Navigate to Devices under Detailed Information 3. Select Firmware security tab Actual Results: Error message: "The aha tool is required to display this page, but could not be found. You can search for it and install it using your package manager. Then please report this packaging issue to your distribution" Expected Results: Display information relevant to Firmware Security. $ emerge --info Portage 3.0.30 (python 3.10.5-final-0, default/linux/amd64/17.1/desktop/plasma/systemd, gcc-11.3.0, glibc-2.35-r7, 5.18.5-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-5.18.5-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7-8550U_CPU_@_1.80GHz-with-glibc2.35 KiB Mem: 32773672 total, 13678536 free KiB Swap: 2097128 total, 2097128 free Timestamp of repository gentoo: Sat, 18 Jun 2022 07:30:01 +0000 Head commit of repository gentoo: c6f7d7309d9db31eb01e5684f04e559af3d0b9b9 sh bash 5.1_p16 ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.38 p4) 2.38 distcc 3.4 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [enabled] app-misc/pax-utils: 1.3.4::gentoo app-shells/bash: 5.1_p16::gentoo dev-java/java-config: 2.3.1::gentoo dev-lang/perl: 5.36.0::gentoo dev-lang/python: 3.9.13::gentoo, 3.10.5::gentoo, 3.11.0_beta3::gentoo dev-lang/rust: 1.61.0-r1::gentoo 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I see for many other tools the ebuild uses optfeature, so I guess once aha is added to the tree that could be also that instead of a runtime dependency.
So a new package request is what this really is. kde proj is not automatically the right address for maintaining that package.
I think the tool we are looking for is https://github.com/theZiz/aha based on what Debian and Arch does. It seems like a useful tool outside of kinfocenter as well, so I'll make an ebuild for it and will maintain it too.
@Zoltan, I'm grateful for you doing this - I too saw the article about the firmware security page in kinfocenter and wanted to see it, obviously I came across the same issue as you, so I'm very appreciative of you working to close that gap. I'll gladly help with testing when you're ready, if you need.
(In reply to Phil Rigby from comment #4) > @Zoltan, I'm grateful for you doing this - I too saw the article about the > firmware security page in kinfocenter and wanted to see it, obviously I came > across the same issue as you, so I'm very appreciative of you working to > close that gap. I'll gladly help with testing when you're ready, if you > need. I'm glad I can be helpful. I've pushed app-text/aha into my overlay (sinustrom) until the PR gets merged into the main tree (at which point I'll drop it from my overlay). You can test it from there for the time being.
Nice. It works! https://imgur.com/a/GkhWjdI (although after seeing that I wish it didn't :-) ) Thanks for your efforts on this. It would be nice if the KDE maintainers add at least an optional dependency for this, going forward.
Portage can't do optional RDEPENDs, so optfeature is all there will be.
Forgive me, I used the wrong terminology - I really meant a USE flag, like "debug" or "html" etc.
That's what I meant as well. Portage would rebuild the package on switching such a flag even though there is absolutely no need for it, because it has no idea about RDEPEND-only flags. That's why we have optfeature.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=f871b0d526e7540839a24509dc932cb7d487f982 commit f871b0d526e7540839a24509dc932cb7d487f982 Author: Zoltan Puskas <zoltan@sinustrom.info> AuthorDate: 2022-06-29 05:03:47 +0000 Commit: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2022-09-14 14:01:11 +0000 kde-plasma/kinfocenter: Add firmware security optfeatures Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/853253 Signed-off-by: Zoltan Puskas <zoltan@sinustrom.info> Signed-off-by: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> kde-plasma/kinfocenter/kinfocenter-5.24.6.ebuild | 1 + kde-plasma/kinfocenter/kinfocenter-5.25.5.ebuild | 1 + 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/kde.git/commit/?id=79bfa69551dc39cd43da436f281ac40a9825e3f8 commit 79bfa69551dc39cd43da436f281ac40a9825e3f8 Author: Zoltan Puskas <zoltan@sinustrom.info> AuthorDate: 2022-06-29 05:03:47 +0000 Commit: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2022-09-14 14:02:57 +0000 kde-plasma/kinfocenter: Add firmware security optfeatures Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/853253 Signed-off-by: Zoltan Puskas <zoltan@sinustrom.info> Signed-off-by: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> kde-plasma/kinfocenter/kinfocenter-9999.ebuild | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
How do you get this working? I'm seeing the same error message in kinfocenter but installing aha does not make it go away. I even tried remerging kinfocenter and the error message is still displayed. Is another package required to get this working?
(In reply to Plüss Roland from comment #12) > How do you get this working? I'm seeing the same error message in > kinfocenter but installing aha does not make it go away. I even tried > remerging kinfocenter and the error message is still displayed. Is another > package required to get this working? Please file a new bug for any issues, but AFAIK just installing aha is enough.
