Op maandag 7 maart 2011 17:32:50 schreef Matt Taggart: > > cpqarrayd currently is arch any and not listed in Packages-arch-specific. > > It doesn't fail to build on non-intel archs but it will not be useful > > there since SmartArray devices are not shipped with such archs. > > There exist card versions of these controllers, so you could potentially > plug one into any arch with PCI/PCI-e. I don't know if it works, but until > someone says otherwise I think we should leave it enabled on non-Intel > (but Linux) archs.
Ah, I didn't know those existed. > > It does fail to build with kfreebsd-* so that should probably also be > > disabled. > > It uses interfaces provided by the cciss driver. How are such devices > supported in kfreesbd? Maybe the driver there has similar interfaces and > could be made to work? Still right now the package uses the Linux kernel > source for the build, so it's unlikely to build. But I thought the proper > thing in that case was for the kfreesbd buildd maintainer to mark it > "not-for-us" and file a bug against the package with the details of the > failed build, but not exclude it from the arch in debian/control? I thought the right way was to have it listed in Packages-arch-specific, but I might be wrong. -- Thijs Kinkhorst <th...@uvt.nl> – LIS Unix Universiteit van Tilburg – Library and IT Services • Postbus 90153, 5000 LE Bezoekadres > Warandelaan 2 • Tel. 013 466 3035 • G 236 • http://www.uvt.nl
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