[Pkg-ofed-devel] Why is debhelper (>= 7.0) required

[Guy Coates]

Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Guy Coates <gmpc at sanger.ac.uk> writes:
> 
>> Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm wondering why most of the ofed packages require debhelper (>=
>>> 7.0). I need backports for etch and that means backporting dpkg,
>>> debhelper, man-db and maybe more. Is 7.0 really needed or is that just
>>> there because stable has it?
>>
>> It is there because dh_make automatically put it there when I created the
>> packages. I think you can back the version down without any problems. You will
>> need to edit debian/compat too.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
>> AFAIK, the only other thing that you might need to change is the  ./configure
>> line in the rules file for the ofa-kernel-source package; some of the modules
>> may not build correctly against the 2.6.18 kernel.  (I have not tested with the
>> etch 2.6.24 kernel, but I suspect you will have better luck with that.)
>>
>> You will also need to grab the libibverbs, librdmacm1, libmthca1, libmlx4-1 and
>> libcxgb3-1 packages from lenny too.
> 
> We have the reverse problem. Out kernel is too new and the old libs
> don't work with that.
> 
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Guy
> 
> MfG
>         Goswin
Ahh ,OK. What kernel are you using; I think kernels >= 2.6.27 should
have the OFED 1.4 kernel bit in mainline, so you will not need the
ofa-kernel package at all.

Cheers,

Guy

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