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Bug#870909: RFS: cxlflash/4.3.2493-1 [ITP] -- IBM Data Engine for NoSQL Software Libraries



On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 10:16:00PM +0000, Michael P Vageline wrote:
>    hi,
>       Thx for your prompt reviews. Here are some more answers:
Please don't send HTML emails.

>    Do I understand correctly that postinst touches /opt? Including /opt/bin?
>    I'm not sure that's a good idea even if that's only for migration (and
>    it's definitely a bad idea if anything in /opt is created on a clean
>    system).
>    As the maintainer script logic is very complex, please carefully test your
>    packgages with piuparts(1).
> 
>      *the old packages were installed into /opt, so postinst sets up symbolic
>    links in /opt to the new file locations
Even if there was no old installation?

>    What are the binaries in src/build/install/resources/ext.tgz? Do they have
>    sources?
>      *they are some specially built utilities with no source.
Non-free then.
I also wonder how does that work with both ppc64 and ppc64el
architectures.

>  Why are ${EXT_DIR}/ext.tgz and the firmware files unpacked on install and
>  not on build?
>    *the firmware files sum to ~60mb. They zip to ~40mb. We are trying to keep the size of the pkg smaller.
Don't you know packages are compressed?

>  WTF is in src/build/install/resources/license/? What does it apply to?
> 
>     *this is a "click-to-accept" license, which is presented when a user runs a script to configure our adapter
Non-free.

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