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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