[ofa-general] debian build instructions?

[Bernd Schubert]

On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 07:47:44PM +0000, John Marshall wrote:
> Roland Dreier wrote:
>>  > There seem to be a lot of people on this list. Is there
>>  > no one working with debian that might be able to
>>  > give a pointer?
>>
>> I use Debian for pretty much all my development.  However I haven't
>> tried to use OFED -- rather, I have just gotten all the support that I
>> use into the main Debian archive.  I'm not sure how much is in Etch but
>> Lenny should be pretty good: there are libibverbs, librdmacm, libmthca,
>> libmlx4, libcxgb3, and libipathverbs packages in the main archive, along
>> with Open MPI 1.2.6 built with IB support.  And the 2.6.25 kernel in the
>> archive should have all the kernel drivers you need.
>>
>> I'd be curious to know if there is something else you would need to use
>> a stock Debian install.
>>   
> Hi,
>
> I think I've missed what is going on. I just checked out the version
> numbers of the individual packages which make up ofed-1.3 against
> what is in the main archive (which packages you are putting in) and,
> lo and behold, they are pretty close. It was the ofed versioning that
> threw me off so that I thought the archive packages were quite out
> of date--and that I would have to rebuild them.
>
> Am I right?
>
> I need the following:
>    opensm - for a switch
>    infiniband-diags - the diag tools
>    mstflint - to update firmware
>    libib*mad - to support the management tools above
>    libibcommon - "

Except mstflint we have already packaged these. Roland, would you sponsor our
uploads (we first need to add proper package descriptions, though). Or 
could we create an alioth group?

Cheers,
Bernd