On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Ira Weiny <wei...@llnl.gov> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 07:42:38 -0700
> Michael Di Domenico <mdidomeni...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Michael Di Domenico
>> <mdidomeni...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Michael Di Domenico
>> > <mdidomeni...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 6:36 PM, Ira Weiny <wei...@llnl.gov> wrote:
>> >>> On Fri, 1 Jul 2011 10:08:47 -0700
>> >>> Michael Di Domenico <mdidomeni...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>> According to my installation of Ofed 1.5.3 on RHEL6, the
>> >>>> infiniband-diags package rpm is trying to chown /usr/local in order to
>> >>>> deposit a library in lib64.
>> >>>
>> >>> infiniband-diags does not do a chown.
>> >>
>> >> Sorry for the late reply, your reply got lost in my email bins...
>> >>
>> >> I should correct my statement, when RPM does the cpio extraction of
>> >> the data that's what's reporting the error
>> >>
>> >>>> In my environment /usr/local is off-limits to root and all package
>> >>>> installs.  Is this a bug?  Is there a workaround to allow the
>> >>>> install.pl to complete?
>> >>>
>> >>> I just tried this on a vanilla Fedora 15 system and was able to build 
>> >>> the source rpms just fine.
>> >>>
>> >>> Try building and installing in this order.
>> >>>
>> >>> libibumad-1.3.7-1.src.rpm
>> >>> libibmad-1.3.7-1.src.rpm
>> >>> opensm-3.3.9-1.src.rpm
>> >>> infiniband-diags-1.5.8-1.src.rpm
>> >>
>> >> these all build correctly using the install.pl file upto the
>> >> infiniband-diags file then i get
>> >>
>> >> error: unpacking archive file on file /usr/local: cpio: Operation not 
>> >> supported
>> >>
>> >
>> > the file that seems to get included in the rpm is
>> >
>> > /usr/local/lib64/perl5/IBswcountlimits.pm
>> >
>> > i can't seem to locate where that's coming from though
>>
>> Looks like the spec file pulls the "installsitearch" from the perl
>> config.  on redhat 5 there doesn't seem to be an installsitearch
>> variable defined in the perl -V output, but on redhat 6 there is a
>> -Dinstallsitearch=/usr/local/lib64
>>
>> this is a redhat 6'ism, i did a fresh install of rhel6.0 to test
>> whether it was something i messed up in the perl or not, but it wasn't
>> me.
>>
>> i can likely work around the issue in the short term by recompiling
>> the spec file by hand
>
> You're right...  :-(  Sorry about that.
>
> I spoke to some people here and our RedHat consultant.  I think this module 
> should be installed in vendorlib.  Would you agree?

Yes (/usr/share modifications), would not affect our systems.  I can't
speak for everyone though.
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