[openfabrics-ewg] [openib-general] Reminder: OFED 1.2

[Jeff Squyres]

FWIW, having git's for the MPI implementations was asked for on the  
call yesterday (by Tziporet, IIRC?).  The rationale, as I understood  
it, was threefold:

1. Putting the MPI release in git provides a level of OFED-specific  
history and version control.  This was explicitly stated on the call  
yesterday.

2. MPI's have concrete "releases" to OFED just like all other ULP's,  
especially if there is any OFED-specific packaging involved in the  
MPI's release.  This was not stated on the call, but it makes sense  
to me.

3. Putting everything in git makes it nicely uniform for OFED to be  
assembled.  This was not stated on the call, and I'm sure it's not a  
requirement, but it is a little nice to be uniform when assembling  
OFED (my $0.02).

4. We used to put the MPI releases in SVN (tarball or SRPM) for prior  
OFED release processes, so putting them in a git seems to parallel  
that procedure.

I don't really care one way or another; this was just my  
understanding of why it was requested.



On Jan 16, 2007, at 3:31 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:

>> Quoting Woodruff, Robert J <robert.j.woodruff at intel.com>:
>> Subject: Re: [openfabrics-ewg]  Reminder: OFED 1.2
>>
>> Sasha wrote,
>>> On 17:25 Mon 15 Jan     , Tziporet Koren wrote:
>>> Dhabaleswar Panda wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Shaun Roland from my group (cc'ed in this e-mail) will be in  
>>>> charge of
>>>> this. Vlad and Shaun can communicate.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Hi Shaun,
>>> Please open an account in the OFA server so you will be able to  
>>> have a
>>
>>> git tree to place your SRPM
>>
>>> But why git tree is needed for SRPM? SRPM is binary file, no?
>>
>>> Sasha
>>
>> Sasha wrote,
>> I am not sure why a git tree is needed for RPMS, unless that is  
>> the only way to
>> expose it from the server to the outside world. I there a way to  
>> allow
>> people from the outside to access just a directory with the RPMS ? or
>> tarballs for things ?
>
> Using git for binary files does not make sense.
> If you want to host files on OFA server, just create
> a world-readable pub_html directory under $HOME and put the files  
> there.
> They will be accessible as http://www.openfabrics.org/~<user>/ 
> <filename> .
>
> OTOH, do we really want to host a copy on OFA servers?
> I thought OSU already host it, we can just wget the SRPM from  
> there. No?
>
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Jeff Squyres
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