Quick note I had the some of the same problem you have what I did to work around it is installed open Ofed first then installed Mellanox Ofed over top. My infiniband switch was a Mellanox. Cool thing the open Ofed fixed the dependency problems I was having with the Mellanox Ofed.
Anthony Walls Sogeti [EMAIL PROTECTED] 513-967-1694 -----Original Message----- From: Michael Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 9:44 AM To: oscar-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Oscar-users] infinibad / OFED You could also try something like this (http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/fedora-35/yum-command-to-exclude-some-updates-507977/) On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Michael Oevermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am installing OFED from source (install all) but that creates lots of > RPMS which > got installed by the OFED install script. When I then do an > yum update > I get something like (and many more) > > Error: Missing Dependency: libopensm.so.1 is needed by package ibutils > > Installed version of ibutils is > > libutils-1.2-1.ofed1.4.rc6 > > and libopensm.so.1 is provided by OFED package > > opensm-libs-3.2.4_20081127_a92a5e5-1.ofed1.4.rc6 > > Should I just install opensm-libs from the CentOS repositories as well > or does > that mess up everything? > > Furthermore, when I compile/install OFED on the master node, how do I get > all the packages on the nodes? Should I really compile it in a chroot > environment > in the client image as described in the support pages of OSCAR? Or is > there a different way? For compiling OFED I had to install a lot of > additional > packages via yum which I probably do not want/need to have on the nodes. > > Sorry for all these questions, but I have to admit that I am at this > point not very > comfortable with managing the master node via yum, the images and > clients via > yume plus additional software like OFED. > > Michael > > > > > > > Michael Edwards wrote: >> Just for clarification are you installing OFED from source or are you >> installing from a collection of RPMS? If you install from source and >> don't install the rpms this isn't an issue. >> >> You can also exclude packages in the yum repository config files for >> any given repository. >> >> Since oscar ultimately leverages these packages I believe yume >> respects these limits. >> One way to find out :) >> >> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Michael Oevermann >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> although this might be not a pur OSCAR issue, I still want to ask this >>> question here >>> as the cluster has been set up with OSACAR. >>> I have infiniband NICs on the nodes and I downloaded the >>> latest OFED package. However, many of the packages from OFED are also >>> available >>> from the CentOS / RHEL repositories, e.g. libibverbs, ibutils, etc. >>> Question: How can I avoid conflicts between the OFED packages and the >>> repository >>> packages managed via yum? >>> >>> Best regards >>> >>> Michael >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge >>> Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great >>> prizes >>> Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world >>> http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Oscar-users mailing list >>> Oscar-users@lists.sourceforge.net >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users >>> >>> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge >> Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes >> Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world >> http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Oscar-users mailing list >> Oscar-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users >> >> > > > -- > ========================================== > Dr. Michael Oevermann > TU Berlin, Fak. 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