Bug 488932 – Break out /usr/bin/wall to its own pkg from sysvinit?

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Matthew Marlowe (RETIRED) 2013-10-21 18:56:37 UTC]

apcupsd expects that users have the /usr/bin/wall binary installed.
It appears that this program is normally installed as part of the sysvinit pkg.
However, we have a few users complaining that this program doesn't exist on their box.  I assume they are running systemd and thus do not have the sysvinit pkg?

This bug is to consider the possibility of breaking out /usr/bin/wall into it's own package and have sysvinit or systemd depend on it, or if it really isn't needed in most cases -- just have apcupsd depend on it and not have sysvinit install it by default.

wall used to be a critical package, I'm not sure what system dependencies exist for it now.

[Comment 1 Matthew Marlowe (RETIRED) 2013-10-21 18:59:17 UTC]

hyperion ~ # equery belongs /usr/bin/wall
 * Searching for /usr/bin/wall ... 
sys-apps/sysvinit-2.88-r4 (/usr/bin/wall)

[Comment 2 Pacho Ramos 2013-10-21 19:04:47 UTC]

I think sysvinit maintainers refuse to split it if upstream doesn't do that. In that case, you would simply need to depend on sysvinit to get wall

[Comment 3 Mike Gilbert 2013-10-21 19:21:12 UTC]

/usr/bin/wall was moved to util-linux at some point. You need to enable the "tty-helpers" use flag to get it.

Maybe add this dependency in the apcupsd ebuild:

sys-apps/util-linux[tty-helpers(-)]

[Comment 4 Mike Gilbert 2013-10-21 19:24:30 UTC]

Actually, I guess it should be this:

|| (
    sys-apps/util-linux[tty-helpers(-)]
    <=sys-apps/sysvinit-2.88-r4
)

[Comment 5 Matthew Marlowe (RETIRED) 2013-10-21 21:08:24 UTC]

Thanks - I've updated the apcupsd dependencies.