[ewg] When installing OFED, it tries to uninstall even if no OFED version is installed

[Jeff Squyres]

Please file a bug on bugzilla for these kinds of problems so that  
they can be tracked towards the release.

Thanks.


On Apr 5, 2007, at 9:00 AM, Erez Zilber wrote:

> Vlad,
>
> It seems that when installing OFED, it tries to uninstall first  
> even if
> it doesn't exist:
>
> I'm checking that OFED is not installed:
> thyme:/tmp # rpm -q kernel-ib
> package kernel-ib is not installed
> thyme:/tmp #
> thyme:/tmp #
> thyme:/tmp # cd OFED-1.2-20070404-0600/
> thyme:/tmp/OFED-1.2-20070404-0600 # ./install.sh -c ofed.conf -net
> ofed_net.conf
>
> Checking dependencies. Please wait ...
>
>
> Building InfiniBand Software RPMs. Please wait...
>
>
> Building ofa_user RPMs. Please wait...
>
> Running rpmbuild --rebuild --define '_topdir /var/tmp/OFEDRPM' -- 
> define
> '_prefix /usr/local/ofed' --define 'build_root /var/tmp/OFED' --define
> 'configure_options %{nil} --sysconfdir=/etc --mandir=/usr/share/man'
> --define 'configure_options32 --sysconfdir=/etc --mandir=/usr/share/ 
> man'
> --define 'build_32bit 1' --define '_mandir /usr/share/man'
> /tmp/OFED-1.2-20070404-0600/SRPMS/ofa_user-1.2-beta1.src.rpm
>
>
> Building ofa_kernel RPMs. Please wait...
>
> Running rpmbuild --rebuild --define '_topdir /var/tmp/OFEDRPM' -- 
> define
> '_prefix /usr/local/ofed' --define 'build_root /var/tmp/OFED' --define
> 'configure_options --with-ipoib-mod --with-iser-mod --with-mthca-mod
> --with-core-mod --with-user_mad-mod --with-user_access-mod
> --with-addr_trans-mod' --define 'KVERSION 2.6.16.21-0.8-smp' --define
> 'KSRC /lib/modules/2.6.16.21-0.8-smp/build' --define  
> 'build_kernel_ib 1'
> --define 'build_kernel_ib_devel 0' --define 'NETWORK_CONF_DIR
> /etc/sysconfig/network' --define 'modprobe_update 1' --define
> 'include_ipoib_conf 1'
> /tmp/OFED-1.2-20070404-0600/SRPMS/ofa_kernel-1.2-beta1.src.rpm
>
> Running /bin/mv -f
> /var/tmp/OFEDRPM/RPMS/x86_64/kernel- 
> ib-1.2-2.6.16.21_0.8_smp.x86_64.rpm
> /tmp/OFED-1.2-20070404-0600/RPMS/sles-release-10-15.2
>
> Running rpmbuild --rebuild --target=noarch --define '_topdir
> /var/tmp/OFEDRPM' --define '_prefix /usr/local/ofed'
> /tmp/OFED-1.2-20070404-0600/SRPMS/ofed-docs-1.2-0.src.rpm
>
> Running /bin/mv -f
> /var/tmp/OFEDRPM/RPMS/noarch/ofed-docs-1.2-0.noarch.rpm
> /tmp/OFED-1.2-20070404-0600/RPMS/sles-release-10-15.2
>
> Running rpmbuild --rebuild --target=noarch --define '_topdir
> /var/tmp/OFEDRPM' --define '_prefix /usr/local/ofed'
> /tmp/OFED-1.2-20070404-0600/SRPMS/ofed-scripts-1.2-0.src.rpm
>
> Running /bin/mv -f
> /var/tmp/OFEDRPM/RPMS/noarch/ofed-scripts-1.2-0.noarch.rpm
> /tmp/OFED-1.2-20070404-0600/RPMS/sles-release-10-15.2
>
>
> Building open RPM. Please wait...
>
> Running rpmbuild --rebuild --define '_topdir /var/tmp/OFEDRPM'
> /tmp/OFED-1.2-20070404-0600/SRPMS/open-iscsi-generic-2.0-754.src.rpm
>
> Running /bin/mv -f
> /var/tmp/OFEDRPM/RPMS/x86_64/open-iscsi-2.0-754.x86_64.rpm
> /tmp/OFED-1.2-20070404-0600/RPMS/sles-release-10-15.2
>
>
> 4 packages were built
>
> Build process finished ...
>
> Now, the install script removes the old installation (that doesn't  
> exist):
>
> Removing previous InfiniBand Software installations
>
>
> Installing OFED software into /usr/local/ofed
>
> Running /bin/rpm -ihv --force --nodeps
> /tmp/OFED-1.2-20070404-0600/RPMS/sles-release-10-15.2/kernel- 
> ib-1.2-2.6.16.21_0.8_smp.x86_64.rpm
>
> Running /bin/rpm -Uhv
> /tmp/OFED-1.2-20070404-0600/RPMS/sles-release-10-15.2/ofed- 
> docs-1.2-0.noarch.rpm
>
> Running /bin/rpm -Uhv
> /tmp/OFED-1.2-20070404-0600/RPMS/sles-release-10-15.2/ofed- 
> scripts-1.2-0.noarch.rpm
>
> Running /bin/rpm -Uhv
> /tmp/OFED-1.2-20070404-0600/RPMS/sles-release-10-15.2/open- 
> iscsi-2.0-754.x86_64.rpm
>
>
> IPoIB configuration for ib0:
>
> IPADDR=192.168.10.58
> NETMASK=255.255.255.0
> NETWORK=192.168.10.0
> BROADCAST=192.168.10.255
> ONBOOT=yes
>
> IPoIB configuration for ib1:
>
> IPADDR=195.168.10.58
> NETMASK=255.255.255.0
> NETWORK=195.168.10.0
> BROADCAST=195.168.10.255
> ONBOOT=yes
> Installation finished successfully...
>
> Nothing fails, but it creates a problem for open-iscsi & iSER. The
> build_env.sh script contains code that I've added
> (http://lists.openfabrics.org/pipermail/ewg/2007-March/002822.html)  
> that
> checks if open-iscsi is already installed. If it is installed, and the
> user selects to install iSER, the installation fails and notifies the
> user that he has to uninstall open-iscsi before installing OFED with
> iSER support.
>
> Now, since OFED tries to uninstall first, it removes the open-iscsi
> package even if this package wasn't installed by OFED (e.g. open-iscsi
> that comes with SLES 10 or RHEL 5). Therefore, my code becomes  
> useless.
> Is it possible to change the install script behavior?
>
> Thanks,
> -- 
>
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>
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>
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>
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Jeff Squyres
Cisco Systems