[ewg] Re: RFC OFED-1.3 installation

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

> There are lots of things that we as a distributor have to care about
> that upstream generally does not.  The spec file and patches are how we
> solve our customer's problems.  They are what make a stable
> distribution, as opposed to a "bleeding edge, must always update to
> latest upstream version to fix any problem" system, a reality.  It's the
> difference between RHEL and Fedora.

I think I am getting it - you want to release a patched version of some OFED
library without going through openfabrics? OK.
So I imagine that's when you would increment the rpm-specific version number.
But I can't see why would an OFED release want to play with these.

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