> On Mar 18, 2007, at 7:15 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > >>I think you're missing Doug's point. There is currently no mechanism > >>for the user to know that they're installing 2 potentially > >>conflicting versions of the same software (OFED). > > > >That's a good point, although not entirely correct. AFAIK OFED installer > >currently attempts to detect and warn about conflicting libraries, this > >logic probably can be improved. > > > > Quoting Jeff Squyres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Subject: Re: [ofa-general] OFED 1.2 Feb-26 meeting summary > > That seems like chasing our tail: adding more logic/work to replicate > a mechanism that is already available (*and* making sure that we keep > this logic up-to-date with all the OFED distributions out there -- > which seems like a losing proposition). RPM can detect this kind of > conflict and prevent it. Why aren't we using it? > > Oh, right, because we're doing several kinds of non-standard things > that preclude us from doing so. :-)
Right. But the user *can* the prefix to /usr, and RPM will detect conflicts then, isn't that right? -- MST _______________________________________________ general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
