Bug#502959: general: raff.debian.org uses non-free software

[Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org>]

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 11:41:14AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> Package: general
> Severity: serious
> Justification: DFSG
> 
> raff.debian.org uses a Compaq Smart 5i RAID card. A flash memory is used
> to store the firmware. While the firmware is freely downloadable (as in
> beer) on HP website [1], we don't have the corresponding source code.
> 
> I suggest that someone works with HP to get the corresponding source
> code. Until we found a solution, I recommend we simply shutdown the
> machine.
> 

Yesterday on raff.debian.org:

| Broadcast message from root@raff (pts/1) (Thu Oct 30 22:29:44 2008):
|
| firmware upgrades to fix raid failure from hell
| The system is going down for reboot NOW!

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