[ewg] Re: [ofa-general] Re: RFC OFED-1.3 installation

[Doug Ledford]

On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 05:18 +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > Quoting Doug Ledford <dledford at redhat.com>:
> > Subject: Re: [ofa-general] Re: RFC OFED-1.3 installation
> > 
> > On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 00:09 +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > > Quoting Roland Dreier <rdreier at cisco.com>:
> > > > Subject: Re: [ofa-general] Re: RFC OFED-1.3 installation
> > > > 
> > > >  > I don't really think we want customers to run beta code
> > > > 
> > > > What's the point of a beta then??
> > > 
> > > Donnu.
> > > In previous OFED releases, we had "release candidates" rather than "beta".
> > > Openfabrics members were running RCs and reporting issues on the list and in
> > > bugzilla. Do you really ask your customers to do this for you?
> > 
> > Sure, as much as possible.  I generally don't recommend using it in
> > production, but just as close as they can get to production is fine with
> > me.  The more issues they find while I'm still actually working on it
> > and making new revisions, the less issues they'll find after I stupidly
> > think I'm done.
> 
> So,Roland's idea of sticking a date in RPM revision willwork, won't it?

As long as you don't do two package builds on the same day.  That's why
my script encodes both an increasing number and the date into the
revision.

For reference, I'll attach the updated script I made for spitting out a
buildable tarball.

-- 
Doug Ledford <dledford at redhat.com>
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Infiniband specific RPMs available at
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