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Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 16:02:02 -0800
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@onstor.com>
To: "Ed Kwan" <ed.kwan@onstor.com>
Cc: "Brian Nguyen" <brian.nguyen@onstor.com>, Larry Scheer
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Subject: Re: EverON-3.1.0.5-install.sh
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Well, I was at a meeting last week in which it was decided that we will
all receive Ferrari 340s as a holiday bonus, but that doesn't mean that
it is connected to reality.

On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 15:14:10 -0800 "Ed Kwan" <ed.kwan@onstor.com> wrote:

> > > Already told CS not to use the script when upgrading from 3.x to
> 3.x.
> > > Maybe we should enforce that?  Need to discuss with QA & CS.
> > 
> > Indeed.  The script can be modified to eventually work, but should
> > we.
> 
> Per Sandrine, there was a meeting a few days ago, and it was decided
> the script is the way to go.  Oh well...

See my note below.  We're trying to put the days of "oh well ... i guess
we're going to give our customers cr@p" are supposedly behind us.

> Anyway, I notice another error while running the script on eng29:
> 
> mount_ffs: /dev/wd1d on /var: Device busy

> That's because after downloading EverON-3.1.0.5.tar.gz to /var, we try
> to remount /var as read-only:

the tarball should never be downloaded to /var, that's this problem.  it
should be removed from the list.  really this piece of software needs
to be re-done for this new intended use.  hacking it here and there is
not something i wish to support.  that's the OLD method of doing
software in this company.

> 
>     558 download_dist() {
>     ...
>     569         else
>     570                 remount_rw $tdir
>     571                 cw "get_distball ftp '$url' $tdir"
>     572                 get_distball ftp "$url" $tdir
>     573                 err=$?
>     574                 remount_ro $tdir
>     575         fi
> 
> Same issue in error_cleanup() and findspace().
> 
> Can you review my changes again?
> 
> /homes/edk/p4/dev/nfx-tree/Tools/cw_install.in

> Thanks,
> Ed
> 
