[ofa-general] OFED 1.2 Feb-26 meeting summary
Jeff Squyres
jsquyres at cisco.com
Sun Mar 18 11:06:54 PDT 2007
I think that Doug is trying to say that our default location should
be /usr (not /usr/local/ofed). That would seem to solve several issues:
- will automatically generate conflicts with the RHEL OFED RPMs
- less muckery with finding libraries and header files
- can claim to be FHS complaint
- user *can* change the default location to elsewhere if they want to
If it's a simple issue to change our default, is the only reason
*not* to do it the historical precedent of prior community OFED
versions? If so, that argument is somewhat diluted because a) we (as
a community) are encouraging users to upgrade, and b) RH started is
already shipping OFED RPMs that live in /usr.
On Mar 18, 2007, at 11:42 AM, Doug Ledford wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 13:51 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>>> 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?
>
> This is a joke, right? You can't *really* be serious. If you are,
> then
> I suggest the EWG change the acronym for OFED to Open Fabrics
> Experimental Distribution because no enterprise customer I know of
> would
> accept the above suggestion that they change the spec file and
> recompile
> just to get RPM to do its job as reasonable for an enterprise software
> package.
>
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>
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