[ snip ]
Let me copy and paste an email conversation I had with Or that
highlights why this is broken:
--- Begin cut-n-paste
On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 22:25 +0300, Or Gerlitz wrote:
[sorry for breaking the thread, I am working from home now and
unable
to use normal mailer.]
Let me
Quoting Doug Ledford [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Subject: Re: RFC OFED-1.3 installation
On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 19:27 +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
Quoting Doug Ledford [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Subject: Re: RFC OFED-1.3 installation
On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 18:25 +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
On Jul 17, 2007, at 1:06 PM, Doug Ledford wrote:
Look, rpms are just like versioned tarballs. Once they go out in the
wild, that particular name-version-release combination is FROZEN. It
NEVER changes.
I think that these 3 statements sum up the whole argument. I find it
hard to disagree
Quoting Doug Ledford [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Subject: Re: RFC OFED-1.3 installation
On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 19:45 +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
Quoting Doug Ledford [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Subject: Re: RFC OFED-1.3 installation
On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 19:27 +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 20:12 +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
Look, rpms are just like versioned tarballs. Once they go out in the
wild, that particular name-version-release combination is FROZEN.
It really looks like this is a work around for when you want to apply
a patch without going
There are lots of things that we as a distributor have to care about
that upstream generally does not. The spec file and patches are how we
solve our customer's problems. They are what make a stable
distribution, as opposed to a bleeding edge, must always update to
latest upstream version
On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 18:36 +0300, Vladimir Sokolovsky wrote:
[ snip ]
Let me copy and paste an email conversation I had with Or that
highlights why this is broken:
--- Begin cut-n-paste
On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 22:25 +0300, Or Gerlitz wrote:
[sorry for breaking the thread, I am
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.
--
MST
