[Ofa_boardplus] OFA Repo and Maintainer List cleanup

Doug Ledford dledford at redhat.com
Fri May 25 08:06:34 PDT 2018


On Thu, 2018-05-24 at 21:48 +0000, Coulter, Susan K wrote:
> 
> 
> > On May 24, 2018, at 3:13 PM, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg at ziepe.ca> wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 07:35:13PM +0000, Coulter, Susan K wrote:
> > >   Any idea who actually maintains ibutils ?
> >  
> > I can say that ibutils is not being maintained by Mellanox, and we
> > have no interest in it.
> > 
> > I think it is abandoned.
> 
> OK Thanx.
> 
> The package is bundled by RedHat and provided as part of the base distro.
> 
> So … Doug Ledford - any idea how/why this is still being bundled and distributed ?
> The build date is 2016.
> Yikes !

We don't drop it unless upstream deprecates it.  There hasn't been a
notice of deprecation upstream as of yet, so we still have it.  We will
be happy to drop it from future distributions if upstream no longer
considers it worthwhile to maintain.

> 
> [root at ko-fe1 RPMS]# rpm -qi ibutils
> Name        : ibutils
> Version     : 1.5.7
> Release     : 13.el7
> Architecture: x86_64
> Install Date: Tue 24 Apr 2018 11:00:09 AM MDT
> Group       : System Environment/Libraries
> Size        : 4751778
> License     : GPLv2 or BSD
> Signature   : RSA/SHA256, Tue 27 Sep 2016 02:29:39 AM MDT, Key ID 199e2f91fd431d51
> Source RPM  : ibutils-1.5.7-13.el7.src.rpm
> Build Date  : Sun 12 Jun 2016 12:19:12 AM MDT
> Build Host  : x86-020.build.eng.bos.redhat.com
> Relocations : (not relocatable)
> Packager    : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>
> Vendor      : Red Hat, Inc.
> URL         : http://www.openfabrics.org/
> Summary     : OpenIB Mellanox InfiniBand Diagnostic Tools
> Description :
> ibutils provides IB network and path diagnostics.
> 
> > Jason
> 
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