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Bug 141070

Summary: app-portage/gentoolkit has depreciated etcat, while there is no obvious alternative to etcat -v
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: corey
Component: Current packagesAssignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME    
Severity: normal    
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Description corey 2006-07-19 12:55:23 UTC 
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060628 Galeon/2.0.0 Firefox/1.5.0.4
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gentoolkit has depreciated the command 'etcat -v', but after 6 hours of
searching, I have found no alternative for 'etcat -v'.  The alternative either
non-obvious, and should be put in the depreciation note, or the alternative does
not exist.

(As a workaround, I'm now keeping a binary copy of etcat, and copying that to
all my machines so future "depreciation chaos" won't effect me as much)

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-07-19 13:06:02 UTC 
It's still installed in /usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-0.2.2/deprecated/etcat/etcat, but I really don't see what's your problem with equery:

# equery list -p net-www/apache
[ Searching for package 'apache' in 'net-www' among: ]
 * installed packages
 * Portage tree (/usr/portage)
[-P-] [  ] net-www/apache-1.3.34-r10 (1)
[-P-] [  ] net-www/apache-1.3.34-r11 (1)
[-P-] [ ~] net-www/apache-1.3.34-r12 (1)
[-P-] [ ~] net-www/apache-1.3.34-r13 (1)
[-P-] [  ] net-www/apache-2.0.54-r31 (2)
[-P-] [  ] net-www/apache-2.0.55-r1 (2)
[-P-] [  ] net-www/apache-2.0.58 (2)
[-P-] [ ~] net-www/apache-2.0.58-r1 (2)
[-P-] [M~] net-www/apache-2.2.0-r1 (2)
[-P-] [M~] net-www/apache-2.2.0-r2 (2)
[-P-] [M~] net-www/apache-2.2.2 (2)

# /usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-0.2.2/deprecated/etcat/etcat -v net-www/apache
[ Results for search key	   : net-www/apache ]
[ Candidate applications found : 11 ]

 Only printing found installed programs.

*  net-www/apache :
        [   ] 1.3.34-r10 (1)
        [   ] 1.3.34-r11 (1)
        [ ~ ] 1.3.34-r12 (1)
        [ ~ ] 1.3.34-r13 (1)
        [   ] 2.0.54-r31 (2)
        [   ] 2.0.55-r1 (2)
        [   ] 2.0.58 (2)
        [ ~ ] 2.0.58-r1 (2)
        [M~ ] 2.2.0-r1 (2)
        [M~ ] 2.2.0-r2 (2)
        [M~ ] 2.2.2 (2)