a call to create a port for seagate sg tool

[Boris Samorodov]

On Sun, 8 Apr 2007 12:08:05 +0200 Roman Divacky wrote:

> Larry Rosenman asked whether we can run

> (software link:
> http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-US&name=SeaTools:_Enterprise_Edition&vgnextoid=8f1bd20cacdec010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD)

> this software.. and in a few days scottl@ make it so that it
> works. from the discussion on cvs-src it looks like its really
> valuable. thnx scott (this time publicly)

> I would like if you ports guys (bsam? netchild?) created a port for
> this seagate tool as it looks really useful. scott reports that it

OK, the port (the main part) is just committed...

> works ok beside "-l" and "-I" options which needs linprocfs
> support. so we should tell the user about it.

...except this one. Just no more time ATM. :-(

> hopefully we will see this port soon :) sorry for not doing it myself
> but my ports-fu is nill :)

Some notes:
1. The ONLY_FOR_ARCHS is defined as "i386 amd64". Needs confirmation.
2. Somebody from src-team should say which OSVERSIONS are OK to work
   with.
3. Currently I'm a maintainer but I don't have the hardware. May be
   somebody is more interested to become a maintainer.


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