Bug 323213

Summary:	portage doesnt clean up non-standard INFOPATHs (like sys-devel/binutils)
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Toralf Förster <toralf>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor	Keywords:	InVCS
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=672408
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	373933

Description Toralf Förster gentoo-dev

2010-06-08 16:03:02 UTC

While upgrading the package today I realized that of the older version one directory till remains :
tfoerste@n22 ~ $ ls -ld /usr/share/binutils-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/*/info/dir 
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1908 Nov 23  2005 /usr/share/binutils-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/2.16.1/info/dir
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1908 Jun 25  2007 /usr/share/binutils-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/2.17/info/dir
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1991 Jan 28 09:01 /usr/share/binutils-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/2.18/info/dir
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2884 Jun  8 17:25 /usr/share/binutils-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/2.20.1/info/dir


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Michael Weber (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-06-09 01:12:11 UTC

Hi,

can you please run `equery belongs ...` or `qfile ...` on these files and post the output, maybe they belong to some other ...

I can confirm this with /usr/share/binutils-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/2.20/info/dir etc. And they don't belong to anything.

Reso/Wont?

Comment 2 Toralf Förster gentoo-dev

2010-06-09 07:34:39 UTC

This gives nothing :
tfoerste@n22 ~ $ ls /usr/share/binutils-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/*/info/dir  | xargs -n 1 qfile

althought at least this is installed:

tfoerste@n22 ~ $ equery l binutils
 * Searching for binutils ...
[IP-] [  ] sys-devel/binutils-2.20.1-r1:0

Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2010-06-10 03:55:36 UTC

binutils has nothing to do with the creation/management of that file

Comment 4 Ryan Hill (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-08-04 04:30:54 UTC

*** Bug 377153 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2011-08-04 05:40:26 UTC

The INFOPATH settings come from /etc/env.d/05bintils, which is probably generated by binutils-config. When we're unmerging directories, we can check if they are in INFOPATH and if the "dir" file is the only remaining contents, and in that case we can remove it so that the parent will be unmerged.

Comment 6 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2011-08-04 23:10:55 UTC

This is fixed in git:

http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=3acce846c43eed7feefd3ab9c47dd172a83ae1db

Comment 7 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2011-08-06 10:15:01 UTC

i'm not sure about that.  sounds a bit sketchy.  since binutils-config already has an --uninstall option to clean up the stuff it generated, seems like it'd make sense to just add this to the list.

Comment 8 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2011-08-06 11:11:08 UTC

I've made it tread any directory named "info" as a candidate:

http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=2c92ae3c7ddb903bcffe96046cebe8106439e86b

Comment 9 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2011-08-06 11:27:51 UTC

that i can live with ;)

Comment 10 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2011-08-12 12:55:00 UTC

This is fixed in 2.1.10.11 and 2.2.0_alpha51.