From eaaba9d62c611ff8eea03ac8f30d9d79cf7da3da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2022 16:07:00 +0200 Subject: gnu: Add wipe. * gnu/packages/disk.scm (wipe): New variable. Signed-off-by: Maxim Cournoyer --- gnu/packages/disk.scm | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 48 insertions(+) diff --git a/gnu/packages/disk.scm b/gnu/packages/disk.scm index 818ca065b8..9583f56a96 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/disk.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/disk.scm @@ -1454,3 +1454,51 @@ wrapper for disk usage querying and visualisation.") gone and to help you to clean it up.") (home-page "https://github.com/shundhammer/qdirstat") (license license:gpl2))) + +(define-public wipe + (package + (name "wipe") + (version "2.3.1") + (source (origin + (method url-fetch) + (uri (string-append "mirror://sourceforge/wipe/wipe/" version + "/wipe-" version ".tar.bz2")) + (sha256 + (base32 + "180snqvh6k6il6prb19fncflf2jcvkihlb4w84sbndcv1wvicfa6")))) + (build-system gnu-build-system) + (arguments + (list + #:tests? #f ;no tests + #:phases + #~(modify-phases %standard-phases + (add-after 'unpack 'patch-makefile + (lambda _ + (substitute* "Makefile.in" + ;; The Makefile.in uses install -o root, but during the + ;; build there is no root user, so if we leave that in, + ;; the build fails with the following error: + ;; /gnu/[...]/install: invalid user ‘root’ + (("-o root") "") + ;; It's up to the distribution to strip the binaries or + ;; not. + (("\\$\\(INSTALL_BIN\\) -s ") + "$(INSTALL_BIN) ")))) + (add-after 'unpack 'force-autotools-bootstrap + (lambda _ + ;; Rebuild the build system scripts, as the ones in bundles are + ;; very old and do not support all the options used by Guix. + (delete-file "configure")))))) + (native-inputs (list autoconf automake libtool)) + (home-page "https://wipe.sourceforge.net") + (synopsis "Secure file/block device wiping utility") + (description + "Wipe can erase files and block devices securely. To work properly it +relies on several assumptions like having the block device write the correct +sectors, etc. For files it also doesn't work on log-structured file systems +such as F2FS, JFFS, LogFS, etc. You should @emph{not} trust @command{wipe} to +work as advertised until you have manually verified that all its assumption +hold true on your system. To overwrite data it uses the Mersenne Twister +pseudo-random number generator (PRNG) that is seeded with @file{/dev/urandom} +or, if unavailable, @file{/dev/random}.") + (license license:gpl2+))) -- cgit v1.2.3