[openfabrics-ewg] Place for the IBED releases

[Jeff Squyres (jsquyres)]

Note that my concern with putting the MPI packages out in the
OpenFabrics SVN is the replication of code -- both Open MPI and the OSU
MVAPICH have their own publicly-available Subversion repositories.  So
there's little sense in dumping full source versions of these software
packages in the OpenFabrics SVN -- if the content that we put there is
identical to what is already available in (for example) the Open MPI
SVN, all that does is create larger maintenance logistics (more places
to update whenever there are changes).
 
I think there are two main options:
 
- We only put IBED-specific and unique items in the OF SVN (e.g., SRPMs
/ RPMs / specfiles that are unique to IBED -- not the same as the
general purpose SRPMs / RPMs / specfiles that may already be available
for Open MPI / OSU MVAPICH).  The OF SVN then becomes the "real"
repository for these items.  (I realize that everyone has their own,
highly tweaked versions of MVAPICH; since they are so different from the
main OSU distributions, this may be the option of choice for MVAPICH,
since it's not really the "OSU MVAPICH").
 
- If IBED does want exactly the same stuff that is already available
(e.g., using Open MPI's main SRPM / specfile), then the IBED creation
scripts can either just do a "wget" or "svn co" to download it from Open
MPI's SVN or we can use the svn:externals property to make it look like
this stuff is in the OF SVN for convenience.  For stability /
repeatability / testing purposes, it is certainly possible to download a
specific revision of a specfile from the Open MPI SVN (for example), so
that when IBED is created, it always gets r1234 of the Open MPI
specfile.
 
Note that this is all a side issue mainly dealing with any software that
is publicly available elsewhere (e.g., Open MPI -- may not necessarily
apply to MVAPICH).  I would still like to see all the scripts / unique
content in IBED show up in the OF SVN somewhere so that we can
collaborate on them.
 

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	From: openfabrics-ewg-bounces at openib.org
[mailto:openfabrics-ewg-bounces at openib.org] On Behalf Of Tziporet Koren
	Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 8:20 AM
	To: Matt Leininger
	Cc: Openfabrics-ewg at openib.org
	Subject: [openfabrics-ewg] Place for the IBED releases
	
	

	Hi Matt,

	 

	We need to allocate a place for the IBED release candidates and
for the MPI packages (OSU & OpenMPI).

	 

	Before the release was under OpenFabrics we place it under
Mellanox ftp but I think it would be more appropriate to have some
common area under OpenFabrics.

	 

	Do you have a suggestion for the place it should be located?

	 

	Note that there was also a request that we will put some RPMs
(for example RH EL4 up2) too.

	 

	Thanks,

	Tziporet

	 

	 

	 

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