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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Agreed. Ofed and mpis don't ship often enough to create incompatible releases (ie we should be able to handle them separately through qa in both sets of release procedures).<BR>
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Thanks for the clarification.<BR>
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-jms<BR>
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----- Original Message -----<BR>
From: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com><BR>
To: Jeff Squyres (jsquyres)<BR>
Cc: John Russo <john.russo@qlogic.com>; EWG <Openfabrics-ewg@openib.org>; OpenFabrics General <general@lists.openfabrics.org><BR>
Sent: Sun Jun 07 12:58:55 2009<BR>
Subject: Re: [ofa-general] RE: [ewg] RFC: Do we wish to take MPI out ofOFED?<BR>
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On Fri, 2009-06-05 at 09:44 -0400, Jeff Squyres wrote:<BR>
> 3. As Doug described, packaging MPI and OFED together actually makes <BR>
> it *harder* for distros. Remember that RHEL and SUSE don't end up <BR>
> using any of the OFED packaging; they essentially use the individual <BR>
> SRPMs.<BR>
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One minor clarification, it's not so much the RPM packaging that makes<BR>
things difficult, it's the compatibility matrix. Since things aren't<BR>
designed to cleanly inter-operate with each other in anything other than<BR>
very specific combinations, it means that updates are an all or nothing<BR>
affair. This is in direct contrast to the rest of our entire operating<BR>
system where we isolate and target things that need fixed and only<BR>
things that need fixed.<BR>
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