[Pkg-ofed-devel] Status OFED 1.5.4

[Brett Johnson]

On 08/28/12 15:34, Ira Weiny wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 14:29:55 -0600
> Brett Johnson <brett at hp.com> wrote:
>> it looks like Ana has
>> checked everything needed into subversion in the "ofed-1.5.4" branch.  I'm not smart
>> enough to figure out how to build the packages though.  It looks like there's an extra
>> level of directory structure (the "upstream" directory) in there, and debian/rules can't
>> figure out where the ./configure (or source tree) is.  Or something like that..
> 
> :-/
> 
> I don't use ofed so I am not sure what you mean.
> 
> Are you speaking of the "management" git tree?  The following 4 packages (opensm, libibumad, libibmad, and infiniband-diags) used to be in a single git tree called "management".  This is no longer the case.  Now these packages should build individually from the following git trees:

No, I'm talking about the debian subversion tree, where Ana checked in "debianised"
versions of some ofed-1.5.4 packages that are severely out of date in debian.

svn://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-ofed/branches/ofed-1.5.4

This is a debian packaging issue, not an upstream openfabrics.org issue (actually, it's
most likely a PEBKAC issue with my own lack of knowledge :).

-- 
Brett Johnson <brett at hp.com>
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