The file must be a leftover from the beginning when OSMC had untracked by apt files and maybe some upgrade somehow cleaned the untracked file for some people. Which apt wouldn’t usually do so it is strange.
Even in all my cleaning of my system I wouldn’t of manually cleaned that file. I use Linux exclusively on my computers so I know a decent amount about it and have used that knowledge to keep my OSMC clean and running without re-installing at the first signs of trouble like some would.
It may not be that good actually (I just found it today after a short Google search)
I let it run and it did find a lot of untracked files mostly pyo and pyc that I googled and look like cache stuff so should be fine. I was a little surprised at how many files under /usr/share/kodi/addons are around untracked including a lot of font files.
But the bad part it seems to have a bug and a lot of lines just said
/bin/sh: 1: Syntax error: “(” unexpected
and some I knew about like the libcec.so.3.0 file didn’t get reported and must of been one of the error lines.
That’s getting a bit off-topic. I would say that if you need help with a v17 build, you may wish to do a separate post, or this will get buried.
With that said, I think we’ll start a new thread, because I have now set up the APT repository for @gmc and that will make builds installable via apt-get update && apt-get -y dist-upgrade.
, aside from the known issue with the DVD Player.