[ewg] Suggestion to improve usibility of the install script

Tziporet Koren tziporet at dev.mellanox.co.il
Sun Aug 3 05:04:23 PDT 2008


Stefan Roscher wrote:
> Hi Vlad,
>
> during the installation of the OFED-1.4 package I noticed that the installation
> script shows the user the missing packages/dependencies in a inconvenient and circular way.
> If packages like gcc++, tcl, bison, tk and many more were missing, the script
> only shows one missing package at each time instead of showing all missing 
> packages. So the user has to restart the installation after haveing installed the reported package.
> Is it possible to change the script to provide the missing packages at once?
>   

This is a good suggestion
Can you send a patch that do it?

Tziporet



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