[ewg] OFED-1.5.2 32bit packaging

Vladimir Sokolovsky vlad at dev.mellanox.co.il
Wed Jun 16 06:31:29 PDT 2010


Alexander Schmidt wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:09:24 +0300
> Vladimir Sokolovsky <vlad at dev.mellanox.co.il> wrote:
>> Hi Alexander,
>> Please try OFED installation after applying the following patch to the install.pl script:
>>
>>
>> diff --git a/install.pl b/install.pl
>> index 89ca93c..54f3b0f 100755
>> --- a/install.pl
>> +++ b/install.pl
>> @@ -3481,7 +3481,7 @@ sub install_rpm_32
>>       }
>>
>>       $cmd = "rpm -iv $rpminstall_flags";
>> -    if ($distro eq "SuSE" and $dist_rpm_rel gt 15.2) {
>> +    if ($distro eq "SuSE") {
>>           $cmd .= " --force";
>>       }
>>       $cmd .= " $package";
> 
> 
> Hi Vlad,
> 
> this worked fine on SLES11SP1, will this be the final fix or could this break
> other (older) SuSE releases?
> 
> Anyway, thanks for looking into this!
> 
> Regards,
> Alex
> 

Hi,
This will be the final fix.
Actually, it is a workaround.
The correct fix is to use SLES convention for RPM names (name-32bit) but I have no time work on this.

Regards,
Vladimir



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