Package: rdma-core Version: 22.1-1 X-Debbugs-CC: [email protected], [email protected]
FYI on CC I have put some more people: CC: Luca who maintains DPDK with me CC: Thomas for DPDK<->Mellanox knowledge that could help Hi, this might be more a request to understand the correct dependencies than a bug (unless you say it is one). But before jumping to conclusions let me outline the issue. We were asked [1] on package DPDK to also install rdma-core as the packages for MLX[4/5] would not work otherwise. We checked our packages and e.g. librte-pmd-mlx5-18.11 depends (due to shlibs magic) on ibverbs-providers and libibverbs1. And we thought that would be fine. Now after being asked/told that without rdma-core this would be useless we were wondering. rdma-core is essentially a bunch of module config/autoloaders and rdma-ndd/iwpmd services. Right now we can only assume this is what librte-pmd-mlx5-18.11 needs, as we are lacking some details. Therefore the following questions: @rdma-core team - does ibverbs1/ibverbs-providers generally need rdma-core to be useful? - if so why isn't it at least a recommends from those packages @Thomas - do you happen to know what exactly of rdma-core that librte-pmd-mlx[45] need? looking forward to your reply, as I'm happy to learn more about the dependencies among those packages. [1]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dpdk/+bug/1820957 (I created that bug from a mail thread) -- Christian Ehrhardt Software Engineer, Ubuntu Server Canonical Ltd
