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Re: Adaptec AAC raid support

To: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
Subject: Re: Adaptec AAC raid support
From: Theo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org>
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 13:43:24 -0700
Cc: Jason Crawford <jasonrcrawford@gmail.com>, Adam <suck@my-balls.com>, misc@openbsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 19 Mar 2005 13:29:36 MST." <423C8BB0.90504@samsco.org>
Sender: owner-misc@openbsd.org
> It's not a binary driver, it's a 2-clause BSD licensed driver that 
> contains full source.  You said that the OpenBSD driver is unstable,
> so I offered to help.  That has nothing to do with binary apps.

From

    http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/pds.cgi?ports/sysutils/aaccli

    Sources for ports/sysutils/aaccli
    Sorry, did not find the sources for ports/sysutils/aaccli

No source!

Let's look closer

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/sysutils/aaccli/Makefile

    MASTER_SITES=               http://download.adaptec.com/raid/ccu/freebsd/
    DISTNAME=           5400s_fbsd_cli_v10
    EXTRACT_SUFX=               .zip

    ...

    RESTRICTED=         "May not be redistributed in binary form"
    NO_CDROM=           yes

So there is a file somewhere that is a .zip file.  It may not be put
onto the official FreeBSD CDs (so obviously not OpenBSD CDs either)

That's not really free is it.

Let's look closer

% ftp http://download.adaptec.com/raid/ccu/freebsd/5400s_fbsd_cli_v10.zip
Trying 216.200.68.139...
Requesting http://download.adaptec.com/raid/ccu/freebsd/5400s_fbsd_cli_v10.zip
100% |************************************************************|   565 KB    
00:03    
Successfully retrieved file.
% unzip 5400s_fbsd_cli_v10.zip
Archive:  5400s_fbsd_cli_v10.zip
  inflating: TRANS.TBL               
  inflating: aaccli-1.0_0.tgz        
% tar xvfz aaccli-1.0_0.tgz
+CONTENTS
+COMMENT
+DESC
+POST-INSTALL
bin/aaccli
% file bin/aaccli
bin/aaccli: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1, for FreeBSD 4.4, 
statically linked, not stripped


That's a binary.  Where is the source?


Why do you keep talking about some Management binary?

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