[ofa-general] 1.3.1 - building with no installation

[Vladimir Sokolovsky]

mar at pism.pl wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm struggling to build ofed-1.3.1 rpm's on machine having another ofed
> version installed (and in use). install.sh insists like crazy on wiping
> all packages first and I can't find any workaround for that. Is there any
> known?
> 
> What I need to do is to build packages on build host and install them on
> bunch on separate hosts. Build host should not be touched in any way -
> rpm's not deleted, updated, installed etc. Also building without root
> privileges would be welcomed warmly. That's bit crazy that, to get these
> rpm's built proper way, I also get build machine devastated as a bonus.
> 
> What happened with old, good build.sh script? Any advice?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Marcin Mogielnicki
> 

Hi Marcin,
The decision to change the install and remove the option for build
without install came from the distros (both Novell & Redhat) in order to
have a standard RPM build and ease the distros to integrate OFED.
This change was explained in the mailing list and we explained it will
remove the build option. We will NOT return this back into OFED since
there were many objections to it.

So, there is no "build" option starting from OFED-1.3.
You should first install OFED on the build host (root privileges required).
This will create binary RPMs under OFED-1.3.X/RPMS. Then install OFED on
other hosts.

Regards,
Vladimir