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

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

> 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.
>
>
>
> Quoting Jeff Squyres <jsquyres at cisco.com>:
> Subject: Re: [ofa-general] OFED 1.2 Feb-26 meeting summary
> 
> 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.  :-)

Right. But the user *can* the prefix to /usr, and RPM will detect conflicts
then, isn't that right?

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