Bug 444143

Summary:	sys-apps/hdparm-9.39 installs wiper.sh script as documentation
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	poletti.marco
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=378069
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Description poletti.marco 2012-11-21 11:00:10 UTC

The hdparm-9.39 ebuild installs the wiper.sh script as documentation, so it's stored in a bz2-compressed format and it's not executable. Also, it's in /usr/share/doc/hdparm-9.39/wiper/ rather than /usr/bin.


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2012-11-22 04:22:12 UTC

wiper.sh is installed as a convenience.  it can be dangerous, and shouldn't be used on a regular basis, and most likely is unnecessary with recent setups.  so no, i don't think putting it into $PATH is what we want.