Sane-dasd-update

Overview

This is the download site for sane-dasd-update, a small tool for SLES 10 s390x systems which automates the process of converting by-id DASD paths in /etc/fstab and /etc/zipl.conf to the (better, in our opinion, for s390 and s390x architectures) by-disk paths.

The sane-dasd-update program is licensed under the Artistic License 2.0, and is copyright 2008 Sine Nomine Associates.

It will only work out-of-the-box on SLES 10 s390x systems. However, it should be easily adaptable to any other distribution's s390 or s390x system, and makes no sense on a non-s390/s390x system, since disk nomenclature is totally different.

Download files

sane-dasd-update-1.0-1.noarch.rpm An RPM suitable for installation on SLES10 s390x systems
sane-dasd-update The sane-dasd-update Perl script; includes its own manpage as a perldoc, which can be extracted with pod2man. Use this if packaging for another distribution.
sane-dasd-update-v3 Updated version of sane-dasd-update that fixes a problem with a regular expression match in the original version. This is not in the current RPM, so if you want it you will need to download it manually from here. Also, please consider this beta code until it is added to the RPM as a production version.

File v3 corrects a problem where some lines had been commented out for testing and left that way.

sane-dasd-update.spec The spec file used for generating the RPM. Put this in /usr/src/packages/SPECS and sane-dasd-update in /usr/src/packages/SOURCES and you can use rpmbuild to build the RPM file. Also useful for other distributions' packagers.