[ewg] Re: [ofa-general] Re: RFC OFED-1.3 installation
It seems to me that this is all stemming from the same old fundamental confusion between a release and a distribution. I think everyone would be better served by a process where individual maintainers were responsible for releasing tarballs of their packages, with schedules coordinated toward an overall openfabrics release (see http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointNineteen for hints about a process that might work), and then an OFED team handled spec files and kernel module packaging for various distros. In this world I would expect Doug could just take tarballs from the openfabrics world and not be bothered by the OFED RPM spec files (unless he wants to use them as a reference). To summarize, there would be two separate products: - openfabrics release: format: .tar.gz files customers: OFED, Red Hat/Novell/Debian/etc packagers - OFED release: format: .srpm and binary .rpm files customers: end users who need newer drivers than their distribution includes - R. ___ ewg mailing list ewg@lists.openfabrics.org http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ewg
[ewg] RE: [ofa-general] Re: RFC OFED-1.3 installation
I think everyone would be better served by a process where individual maintainers were responsible for releasing tarballs of their packages, with schedules coordinated toward an overall openfabrics release For what it's worth, I agree with this approach. - Sean ___ ewg mailing list ewg@lists.openfabrics.org http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ewg
[ewg] RE: [ofa-general] Re: RFC OFED-1.3 installation
So you need to be able to tell the difference between a customer running libibverbs-1.0.4 from OFED-1.3-beta1 and libibverbs-1.0.4 from OFED-1.3 final. I don't really think we want customers to run beta code, or intend to support such configurations. But we still need to tell the difference, so we can tell the customer they are running beta code and should upgrade. Scott ___ ewg mailing list ewg@lists.openfabrics.org http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ewg
[ewg] RE: [ofa-general] Re: RFC OFED-1.3 installation
I don't really think we want customers to run beta code What's the point of a beta then?? Donnu. In previous OFED releases, we had release candidates rather than beta. Openfabrics members were running RCs and reporting issues on the list and in bugzilla. Do you really ask your customers to do this for you? You say toMAYto, I say toMAHto. We had many customers running various OFED 1.2 pre-GA builds for testing, sometimes we had to use a daily build because of certain bug fixes. Scott ___ ewg mailing list ewg@lists.openfabrics.org http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ewg
[ewg] Re: [ofa-general] Re: RFC OFED-1.3 installation
I think it's easy enough to make the revision of the RPMS be something like -0.1.2007-07-17.1 or something like that. OK, so you say just ignore the content and stick a date in there? Fine, that'll work, and we can cover the RCs this way too I think. I just meant to add a revision that encodes the daily build if you want to do daily builds. So you could have libibverbs RPMs with version 1.1.2-0.1.2007-07-17.1 or whatever, and then do 1.1.2-0.2.beta1 and 1.1.2-1 final. - R. ___ ewg mailing list ewg@lists.openfabrics.org http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ewg
[ewg] Re: [ofa-general] Re: RFC OFED-1.3 installation
On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 00:09 +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: Quoting Roland Dreier [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Subject: Re: [ofa-general] Re: RFC OFED-1.3 installation I don't really think we want customers to run beta code What's the point of a beta then?? Donnu. In previous OFED releases, we had release candidates rather than beta. Openfabrics members were running RCs and reporting issues on the list and in bugzilla. Do you really ask your customers to do this for you? Sure, as much as possible. I generally don't recommend using it in production, but just as close as they can get to production is fine with me. The more issues they find while I'm still actually working on it and making new revisions, the less issues they'll find after I stupidly think I'm done. -- Doug Ledford [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG KeyID: CFBFF194 http://people.redhat.com/dledford Infiniband specific RPMs available at http://people.redhat.com/dledford/Infiniband signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ ewg mailing list ewg@lists.openfabrics.org http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ewg
