[ofa-general] debian build instructions?

[Roland Dreier]

 > I think I've missed what is going on. I just checked out the version
 > numbers of the individual packages which make up ofed-1.3 against
 > what is in the main archive (which packages you are putting in) and,
 > lo and behold, they are pretty close. It was the ofed versioning that
 > threw me off so that I thought the archive packages were quite out
 > of date--and that I would have to rebuild them.
 > 
 > Am I right?

Yes, that's right -- everything in Debian now is pretty much the latest
upstream version.

 > I need the following:
 >    opensm - for a switch
 >    infiniband-diags - the diag tools
 >    mstflint - to update firmware
 >    libib*mad - to support the management tools above
 >    libibcommon - "

mstflint may not be that fun to package.  But anyway all of these should
be pretty easy to build from git.

 - R.