On Mar 19, 2007, at 10:31 AM, Tziporet Koren wrote:
There was a long discussion regarding the OFED installation process.
There were several issues raised:
1. Prefix and the distro default:
My suggestion is that we will change the default of the install
according to the distro that is used.
1. For Redhat the default will be /usr
2. For SLES I don't know what should be the default - Moiz can
you send me a contact person that will educate us on SLES preferred
prefix.
3. Debian - Roland do you know what should be the default
In case someone wish to stay with another prefix (or change it back
to /usr/local/ofed) it can be easily done during installation:
* In an interactive installation there is a specific question:
"Please enter the OFED installation directory [/usr/local/ofed]: "
* In a non-attended installation only need to change this line
in the conf file: STACK_PREFIX=/usr/local/ofed
Please reply if this is OK and we will do this change this week. In
this way we will have enough time to test it before RC1. (Note that
in Mellanox we always test both /usr/local/ofed and /usr/local
prefixes)
I think that this sounds fine (and will be quite helpful for all the
reasons Doug has specified), but I'd like to hear from the testers.
2. SPEC files -
Change this now is too risky for 1.2 - I suggest we do it
immediately after OFED 1.2 so we have enough time to stabilize this
change.
In any case we may want to have a teleconference to define what we
want.
I will happily participate in this effort. I think that it's
[unfortunately] far too late to do anything about this for v1.2, so I
propose that we table the discussion until after 1.2 is out. Then
let's re-start the discussion shortly/immediately after 1.2 is
released, decide what we want, come up with a way to move forward, etc.
Also if anyone want to "raise the glove" - change and test the
build & install scripts and send patches it will be great
I think that this is very much in the spirit of open source, but
given that there is so much apathy and confusion about the issue :-),
I think we should probably have a discussion about exactly what we
*want* before someone tries to code this up.
Just my $0.000000001.
--
Jeff Squyres
Cisco Systems
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