New port: sysutils/megacli waiting to commit

[Sean McAfee]

Doug Ambrisko wrote:
> Sean McAfee writes:
> | 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.
> 
> I find this hard to believe and in my experience with a fresh download
> from LSI's web-site the FreeBSD and Linux variants work just fine
> on my PERC5's for things like -AdpAllInfo.  There is no real firmware
> interface difference between between the PERC5 and PERC6.  So I don't
> know where you get this from.  Specifics in which things are broken
> could be nice so I can look at getting them fixed.  I put in the
> management ioctl path that they use into FreeBSD a long time ago.
> They did find some bugs in some new management features that are 
> fixed in 7.1 and I need to merge back to 6.  Unfortunately, this work 
> happened after the last 6.X version was released :-(

Sorry, I missed this reply originally, but it is a 6 vs. 7 issue.  On 
6.3p9 (MegaCli is native, megacli is linux-):

[smcafee at web01 ~]$ sudo MegaCli -AdpAllInfo -aALL


Exit Code: 0x00
[smcafee at web01 ~]$ sudo megacli -AdpAllInfo -aALL

Adapter #0

==============================================================================
                     Versions
                 ================
Product Name    : PERC 5/i Integrated
Serial No       : 12345
FW Package Build: 5.2.2-0072
....


What's the ports@ policy for things like this?  I know I'm pretty peeved 
that openntpd was pushed to 4.x, which requires >7.  Fresh installs of 
6.x require me to pkg_create from a donor system or come up with a 
backdated ports tree and I really don't want megacli to be in the same boat.

-- 
Sean McAfee
System Engineer