requesting hd-idle ebuild
I created a CVS ebuild for this package. I find this utility very useful because it's the only way known to me to spin down a bunch of disks (Western Digital WD10EADS) I use for a infrequently accessed RAID. Please note that "hdparm -S xxx" (spin down after timeout) does NOT work on these disks, while "hdparm -y" (spin down now) perfectly works. After spending some days digging for this problem, it seems that several "newer" disks have this problem. The hd-idle utility is a convenient way to automate this.
Created attachment 219975 [details] A CVS ebuild for the hd-idle utility
I forgot to mention: I already mailed the hd-idle author asking him to make a source release so I can create a non-CVS ebuild for hd-idle. I'll update this bug when I get a reply.
Created attachment 226631 [details] An ebuild for the hd-idle-1.01release Added an ebuild for hd-idle-1.01.
Created attachment 226635 [details] The ebuild in plaintext As requested on IRC #gentoo-sunrise.
Hello, everyone. It seems that at least one ebuild related to this bug exists in the Sunrise overlay at the moment. However, I have to regretfully announce that after a long inactivity period the Sunrise project has been discontinued and the related overlay will be eventually removed. For this reason, I'd like to ask you to reevaluate the ebuilds and consider moving them. If you'd like to maintain a package from Sunrise in Gentoo, please take a look at our Proxy Maintainers [1] project. Please make sure to take ebuilds from the unreviewed developer Sunrise repository [2] rather than the -reviewed one, since the latter has not been updated for over a year. While at it, please note that: 1. Adding a package to Gentoo requires declaring yourself as an active maintainer for it. All bugs regarding the package will be assigned to you, and you will be expected to maintain it. 2. Some packages may not be suitable for addition anymore. While there's no strong rules that would prevent you from adding a package, it may be a bad idea to add old-unmaintained packages that will shortly result in a large number of bugs reported with no solution. If that is the case, please close the bug as RESOLVED/OBSOLETE to make it easier to find packages worth adding. 3. Some of the bugs were already closed as WONTFIX/OBSOLETE/... while the relevant ebuild was kept in Sunrise. If you disagree with the original decision, you still can add the ebuild via proxy-maint. 4. Pleaes note that many of the Sunrise ebuilds are old and may be buggy. If you decide to move them, please make sure to update/clean them up. The proxy-maint team will also review your ebuilds, therefore making sure they land in Gentoo in good quality. Once again, thank you for your contribution. We hope that you will still want to contribute to Gentoo, through proxy-maint or otherwise. [1]:https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers [2]:https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/sunrise.git/
There's an ebuild in portage since a while, I am proxy-maintaining it. Sadly, I did not see this issue report before, otherwise I'd have referenced it in: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/commit/fb58aa1b3479fb9014d2aeccac0cda8dea7a4e0f I think this bug can be closed then?
