On Fri, 11 Jan 2013 13:36:13 -0800 walt <w41...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 01/11/2013 12:18 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Fri, 11 Jan 2013 11:52:14 -0800 > > walt <w41...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> On 01/11/2013 07:14 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >>> emerge -p1 $(for p in $(qfile -Cvq $(find /usr/lib/udev/) | sort > >>> -u); do echo "=$p"; done) > >> > >> qfile stopped working for me many weeks ago and I wish I could get > >> it working again. All the other portage utils work normally, > >> though. Any idea how to fix it? > >> > >> > > > > Error messages please > > #qfile bash > #echo $? > 1 > #qfile /bin/bash > app-shells/bash (/bin/bash) > #echo $? > 0 > > That's not the behavior I saw a few months back. Do you see > something different? >
alanm@khamul ~ $ qfile bash alanm@khamul ~ $ echo $? 1 alanm@khamul ~ $ qfile /bin/bash app-shells/bash (/bin/bash) alanm@khamul ~ $ echo $? 0 alanm@khamul ~ $ I get the same as you, and Nikos' one-liner works as intended for me. I don't use qfile much so I can't honestly say if it changed recently, but it's behaviour is odd to say the least: alanm@khamul ~ $ pwd /home/alanm alanm@khamul ~ $ qfile media sys-fs/udisks (/media) alanm@khamul ~ $ alanm@khamul ~ $ alanm@khamul ~ $ qfile bash alanm@khamul ~ $ cd /bin/ alanm@khamul /bin $ qfile bash app-shells/bash (/bin/bash) alanm@khamul /bin $ This is the documented behaviour, explained by the "ROOT VARIABLE" section in the man page, but it just feels weird. The purpose of qfile is to tell you what installed a file system object (the argument to the command). The argument looks exactly like a path/filename and a reasonable man would treat it as such, but the command is prepending a hidden[1] string of ROOT VARIABLE when it doesn't get a hit on the first try. This might make sense to the dev, but it's certain to confuse everyone else. I would say that's not a bug, but it's an odd feature that probably needs to be thought through some more. [1] It's not really hidden as such. But it does do something very unexpected by default, and you have to read the man page first to find it. Feels to me like it violates the Law of Unexpected Behaviour -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
