[ewg] Re: [ofa-general] OFED 1.2 Feb-26 meeting summary

[Jeff Squyres]

That seems like chasing our tail: adding more logic/work to replicate  
a mechanism that is already available (*and* making sure that we keep  
this logic up-to-date with all the OFED distributions out there --  
which seems like a losing proposition).  RPM can detect this kind of  
conflict and prevent it.  Why aren't we using it?

Oh, right, because we're doing several kinds of non-standard things  
that preclude us from doing so.  :-)



On Mar 18, 2007, at 7:15 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:

>> I think you're missing Doug's point.  There is currently no mechanism
>> for the user to know that they're installing 2 potentially
>> conflicting versions of the same software (OFED).
>
> That's a good point, although not entirely correct. AFAIK OFED  
> installer
> currently attempts to detect and warn about conflicting libraries,  
> this logic
> probably can be improved.
>
> -- 
> MST


-- 
Jeff Squyres
Cisco Systems