[ewg] Re: [ofa-general] Install IPoIB separately ..

Or Gerlitz ogerlitz at voltaire.com
Tue May 13 23:25:45 PDT 2008


Nathan Dauchy wrote:
> This coupling of install and build steps complicates life for users and
> seems like a step backwards from OFED-1.2.
>
> >From the "OFED Aug 13 meeting summary", this change was made in part
> because the previous build method and manner of handling dependencies
> did not follow standard RPM usage.  I don't think that uninstalling
> multiple RPM's and rebuilding them in order to add another RPM is
> standard RPM usage either.  Can this be put on the "to-do" list for
> OFED-1.3.2?
>
> Is "install.pl" the only way to reliably build OFED-1.3?
>
Can you please spare the general list from those discussions on the 
"ofed distro" startup?

Or.




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