[ofa-general] OFED install issues

[Tziporet Koren]

Hi All,
There was a long discussion regarding the OFED installation process.
There were several issues raised:
1. Prefix and the distro default:
My suggestion is that we will change the default of the install 
according to the distro that is used.

   1. For Redhat the default will be /usr
   2. For SLES I don't know what should be the default - Moiz can you
      send me a contact person that will educate us on SLES preferred
      prefix.
   3. Debian - Roland do you know what should be the default

In case someone wish to stay with another prefix (or change it back to 
/usr/local/ofed) it can be easily done during installation:

    * In an interactive installation there is a specific question:
      "Please enter the OFED installation directory [/usr/local/ofed]: "
    * In a non-attended installation only need to change this line in
      the conf file: STACK_PREFIX=/usr/local/ofed

Please reply if this is OK and we will do this change this week. In this 
way we will have enough time to test it before RC1. (Note that in 
Mellanox we always test both /usr/local/ofed and /usr/local prefixes)

2. SPEC files -
Change this now is too risky for 1.2 - I suggest we do it immediately 
after OFED 1.2 so we have enough time to stabilize this change.
In any case we may want to have a teleconference to define what we want.
Also if anyone want to "raise the glove" - change and test the build & 
install scripts and send patches it will be great

Tziporet

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