Bug 378069

Summary:	sys-apps/hdparm: install wiper script
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Klaus Kusche <klaus.kusche>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	pinkbyte
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://sourceforge.net/projects/hdparm/files/
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=444143 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=433147
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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 (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

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 gentoo-dev

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