Bug 292847

Summary:	Add ebuild metadata so it is possible to check for orphaned files in $FILESDIR
Product:	Gentoo Hosted Projects	Reporter:	Daniel Pielmeier <billie>
Component:	PMS/EAPI	Assignee:	PMS/EAPI <pms>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	idl0r, jlec, pacho, qa
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=431196
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Daniel Pielmeier gentoo-dev

2009-11-11 21:28:45 UTC

This is just an idea which come to mind. Such a check would be quite useful.

If I remember right there was a file cleaning effort some time ago, so a script probably already exists.

Comment 1 Christian Ruppert (idl0r) gentoo-dev

2009-11-12 21:16:43 UTC

http://qasl.de/~idl0r/gentoo_unused_files-beta.pl

But I think it is nearly impossible to cover all and esp. without false-positives.

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2009-11-13 03:47:45 UTC

try running it in binutils/gcc/glibc dirs.  files are used in tricky ways, and sometimes only referred to by eclasses/eblits ...

Comment 3 Daniel Pielmeier gentoo-dev

2010-03-05 14:52:59 UTC

The check does not need to be 100% correct as this seems to be impossible or only doable with a huge effort. An option to turn on which shows possible unused files would be nice though.

Comment 4 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2010-03-06 00:57:07 UTC

Maybe we should add a new metadata variable for declaring which files are used inside $FILESDIR. We could make this variable retroactive for all EAPIs like we did with PROPERTIES. In addition to QA, this new variable would be useful for things like bug 303403.

Comment 5 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2012-08-20 02:57:46 UTC

it's hard to say how useful this is

Comment 6 Michał Górny archtester

2018-02-04 13:07:41 UTC

*** Bug 343657 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***