[openfabrics-ewg] db-devel requirement?

[Jeff Squyres (jsquyres)]

I guess that still seems weird to me (especially since I cannot find a
RHEL4 package for db-devel -- am I just missing it?).

End users and going to "install" and then be confused when it doesn't
work.  This will likely generate an e-mail to OFED lists and/or a
support call to their vendor.

The scripts clearly figure out when dependencies are violated --
wouldn't it be better (from the naive user perspective -- meaning "the
most prevalent form of user") if the scripts say "the optional package
open-iscsi won't be installed because you don't have db-devel installed
-- is this ok?" (or somesuch).

Right now, there is no indication that OFED *can* be installed because
you run install.sh, select the "install" option, and then you are
eventually dumped back to a shell prompt.  I guess that's what I find
weird (and what I'm guessing will cause us a bunch of support questions,
especially if this is a stock RHEL4 issue).


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vladimir Sokolovsky [mailto:vlad at mellanox.co.il] 
> Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 9:04 AM
> To: Jeff Squyres (jsquyres)
> Cc: openfabrics-ewg at openib.org
> Subject: Re: [openfabrics-ewg] db-devel requirement?
> 
> Jeff,
> You can install RHEL4U2 and select different packages to be installed 
> (minimal installation does not includes development tools and kernel 
> sources).
> Some of the OFED packages have dependencies which are not a part of 
> OFED, e.g. ibutils depend on tcl-devel, kernel-ib depend on kernel 
> sources, open-iscsi depend on db-devel...
> One of the purposes of the OFED installation script is to check these 
> dependencies and provide corresponding message before running 
> into the 
> compilation process and getting failure.
> 
> Regards,
> Vladimir
> 
> Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) wrote:
> > I guess it seems weird to me that a user can't do an OFED 
> build on an
> > out-of-the-box RHEL4U2 machine (i.e., they have to edit 
> some file and
> > supply an option to install.sh).  Shouldn't it "just work" 
> for supported
> > systems?
> >
> > (I can't look to see what the supported systems are right now; I'm
> > re-building my $HOME :-( )
> >  
> >
> >   
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Vladimir Sokolovsky [mailto:vlad at mellanox.co.il] 
> >> Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 8:43 AM
> >> To: Jeff Squyres (jsquyres)
> >> Cc: openfabrics-ewg at openib.org
> >> Subject: Re: [openfabrics-ewg] db-devel requirement?
> >>
> >> *db-devel* package (not db4-devel) is required to build open_iscsi.
> >> If you don't really want to install open-iscsi RPM you can 
> >> edit ofed.conf and set open_iscsi=n.
> >> Then run:
> >> 	./install.sh -c ofed.conf
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Vladimir
> >>
> >>     
> >
> >   
>