Bug 74335 – IBMtape driver ebuild

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Baz (RETIRED) 2004-12-13 19:01:56 UTC]

Provides device drivers for IBM Ultrium LTO tapes and Libraries.

[Comment 1 Baz (RETIRED) 2004-12-13 19:03:30 UTC]

Created attachment 45944 [details]
IBMtape ebuild version 1.4.14

[Comment 2 Baz (RETIRED) 2004-12-13 19:04:44 UTC]

Created attachment 45945 [details]
IBMtape ebuild version 1.5.3

[Comment 3 Baz (RETIRED) 2004-12-13 19:05:47 UTC]

Created attachment 45946 [details]
init script for IBMtaped

[Comment 4 Baz (RETIRED) 2004-12-13 19:15:36 UTC]

Requires the Redhat enterprise kernel 2.4.21-9.0.3 for 1.4.14 or 2.4.21-15.0.4 for 1.5.3 (see bug http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=74336) 

[Comment 5 Stefan Schweizer (RETIRED) 2005-01-28 06:04:50 UTC]

Can we not just ask redhat for the sources and offer them gentoo support for their driver in return?

I have seen a similar pkg from IBM: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53536
fedora seems to have the sources for the ppc64-utils, but I cant find it somewhere on the mirrors .. could you clear me up on the license(what is in the ebuild looks like "no sources, no license") and why we not have the sources for these 2 drivers, please?

[Comment 6 Baz (RETIRED) 2005-02-06 12:34:17 UTC]

IBM do not distribute the source to these binaries, as far as I can tell.  In regards to http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53536 this appears to be based off a binary RPM, one of the commenters also indicates that he does not beleive there is source available.

As for the license, this is installed in /usr/share/doc/IBMtape-x.xx and can also be found at ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/devdrvr/Doc/UserLicense.pdf.  Since it was not present in /usr/portage/licenses, I chose LICENSE="No-Problem-Bugroff" to get it functional.

[Comment 7 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) 2005-06-16 10:26:18 UTC]

Sorry, we aren't developing against 2.4 kernels at the moment. Also, I can't get
to the homepage in the ebuild.