[openfabrics-ewg] Some intitial test notes on RC5

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 22:09, Betsy Zeller wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-05-29 at 11:02 +0300, Tziporet Koren wrote:
> > Betsy Zeller wrote:
> 
> > >
> > > Here is the error from SUSE 9.3:
> > >
> > SUSE 9.3 was not one of the OSes that we decided to support, thus we run 
> > checks on SUSE 10 only.
> > We can see if this can be fixed but not clear me if we want to support 
> > so many systems.
> I'm fine with not testing OFED 1.0 on SUSE 9.3 - I'll drop it from the
> installations we test on.
> 
> > 
> > > 3) RHEL 4 SP 3:
> > >
> > > This attempt failed due to an unspecified dependency on tcl-devel. Once
> > > tcl-devel was installed, it built successfully.
> > > 
> > tcl-devel is required by the ib-utils package. You can choose not to 
> > install it and then tcl-devel will not be a requirement.
> The problem is certainly easy enough to work around, but if ib-utils
> requires tcl-devel, shouldn't there be a dependency? 

Also, aren't there some specific tools it depends on (like a certain
version of swig) ?

-- Hal

> > > 4) SLES 10
> >  Moni from Voltaire said 
> > they will support only SLES10 RC1, on RC6.
> That makes sense to me.
> 
> > > 7) After installation and reboot, the systems were configured with
> > > less than unsatisfactory IP addresses for the IB ports.  
> > The script that cause it is ofed_net.conf. (it is also explained in the 
> > OFED_Installation_Guide.txt).
> > You have 2 options: In the manual installation change the default of the 
> > script to any ip address. Or change the setting in the ofed_net.conf file.
> > We are planning to fix this and give a better way to control the ip 
> > addressed setting. Should be in RC6.
> 
> We'll look for the fix there - this seems like an important one.
> 
> Thanks, Betsy
> 
> 
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