On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 13:51 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > 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?
This is a joke, right? You can't *really* be serious. If you are, then
I suggest the EWG change the acronym for OFED to Open Fabrics
Experimental Distribution because no enterprise customer I know of would
accept the above suggestion that they change the spec file and recompile
just to get RPM to do its job as reasonable for an enterprise software
package.
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