New port: sysutils/megacli waiting to commit

Frank J. Laszlo laszlof at freebsd.org
Wed May 20 13:53:56 UTC 2009


Sean McAfee wrote:
> Frank J. Laszlo wrote:
>> Philip M. Gollucci wrote:
>>> Vladimir Ermakov wrote:
>>>  
>>>> Hi, all.
>>>> please appreciate my port *megacli*
>>>>
>>>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=133655
>>>>     
>>>
>>> Is that different from this the port, is it an update?
>>>
>>> Path:   /usr/ports/sysutils/linux-megacli
>>>
>>>   
>>
>> Since the megacli application now has a native binary, should be not 
>> DEPRICATE the linux version?
>>
>> Regards,
>>    Frank Laszlo
>
> Probably not. I noted this when I originally filed the PR for 
> linux-megacli2, but the 1.x, 2.x, and 4.x versions support 
> dramatically different hardware lines.
>
> As an example, this native version is 4.x and does not support the 
> Dell PERC5.
>
> IMO, linux-megacli, linux-megacli2, and megacli should all exist as 
> independent ports.
>

Sorry, I missed this reply with your reasoning. Thanks for clearing that up.

Regards,
    Frank Laszlo


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