[ewg] OFED installation on RH5 UP2

[Vladimir Sokolovsky]

Olga Shern wrote:
> Hi Vlad,
> 
>  
> 
> I see OFED installation / uninstallation (install.pl / uninstall.sh) 
> failure on RH5 UP2 full OS installation.
> 
>  
> 
> There are three different issues:
> 
>    1. only relevant for uninstall.sh – on RH5 UP2 openmpi is installed
>       as 32 and 64 bit library to remove it need
> 
>       to add /--allmatches/  flag to /rpm –e/ command
> 
>  
> 
>    2. On RH5 UP2 compat-dapl-1.2.5 is installed and  /rpm –q
>        compat-dapl/  return NULL in this case,
> 
>       Need to add compat-dapl-1.2.5 as part of the rpms that need to be 
> removed in uninstall.sh
> 
>  
> 
> The attached patch fixes the above two issue
> 

Hi Olga,
The patch applied, thanks

>  
> 
>    3. lam MPI and mpi-selector RPMs are installed on RH5 UP2. 
> 
>       lam mpi is depended on mpi-selector therefore mpi-selector cannot 
> not be removed
> 
>  
> 
>       I don’t have a simple solution for this because we cannot remove 
> lam mpi.
> 
>       One of the solutions that I can think about, is not to remove 
> mpi-selector only update it.
> 
>       What do you think?
> 

Agree,
Please test the attached patch:
     Leave mpi-selector if it can't be removed.
     Update mpi-selector if exist.


Regards,
Vladimir

>  
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Olga
> 
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