[Bug 415791] New: Review Request: netbsd-iscsi - User-space implementation of iSCSI target from NetBSD project

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=415791

           Summary: Review Request: netbsd-iscsi - User-space implementation
                    of iSCSI target from NetBSD project
           Product: Fedora
           Version: rawhide
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: medium
          Priority: medium
         Component: Package Review
        AssignedTo: nobody at fedoraproject.org
        ReportedBy: lkundrak at redhat.com
         QAContact: extras-qa at fedoraproject.org
                CC: fedora-package-review at redhat.com,notting at redhat.com


SPEC: http://people.redhat.com/lkundrak/SPECS/netbsd-iscsi.spec
SRPM:
http://people.redhat.com/lkundrak/mock-results/netbsd-iscsi-20071205-1.fc8.x86_64/netbsd-iscsi-20071205-1.fc8.src.rpm
mock:
http://people.redhat.com/lkundrak/mock-results/netbsd-iscsi-20071205-1.fc8.x86_64/

Description:

NetBSD iSCSI is an iSCSI target following the iSCSI RFC 3720.  It is based
on the BSD-licensed Intel iSCSI reference model.  It has been tried and
tested with the Microsoft iSCSI initiator, version 1.06.

Some random notes:

I used a daily snapshot as formal releases are not available. Now I realize,
that the snapshot tarballs get purged after some time, so I'll probably rebase
this on NetBSD CVS. For now there's no need -- the code is pretty much the same,
and stable.

The code also includes a FUSE-based userspace initiator. Though it is primarily
meant to serve as a testsuite for the target, it might be actually usable, so
I'll consider adding it as a subpackage. On the other hand it might be pertly
unnecessary, as we already have a (kernel-based) initiator that performs better
(and works with this target as well).

I'll explore the possibility of packaging libnbsdcompat to provide non-standard
NetBSD specific functions such as strl* funcions, to make need to have local
copies unnecessary.

RPMlint:

netbsd-iscsi.x86_64: W: file-not-utf8 /usr/share/man/man8/iscsi-target.8.gz
netbsd-iscsi.x86_64: W: file-not-utf8 /usr/share/man/man5/targets.5.gz

It is the (c) sign. I might as well replace it, as it adds na ugly banner to the
manual pages:

XXX
XXX WARNING: old character encoding and/or character set
XXX

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