On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 06:50 -0700, DK Smith wrote: > > The new installer appears to be restricted to native installations. Is > this the case? If so, isn't this also a problem for other people?
If by this you mean "isn't it a problem for other people that the mode of operations is that you have to build RPMs and then install them on the build system in order to build other RPMs", _absolutely_ this is a problem! I am not allowed to "pollute" the pristine build system by installing random RPMs into it. To that end, I have created a build system for OFED 1.3 that builds and installs (and builds and installs, and builds and installs) all of the RPMs into a "tree" that I am free to make in my $HOME. It does not work as entirely smoothly as it could/should due to some (what I consider) breakage in the packages themselves but I seem to have been able to work around the breakage that I have found. I don't yet build all RPMs either though. I've only built enough to get me the test tools I needed at the time. But IMHO, the OFED build system should be able to complete building all RPMs without a) needing to be root and b) having to install intermediate RPMs on the build system. AFAIK, it can/does not do this currently. Cheers, b.
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