[ewg] Re: [ofa-general] Re: RFC OFED-1.3 installation

2007-07-17 Thread Roland Dreier
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

[ewg] RE: [ofa-general] Re: RFC OFED-1.3 installation

2007-07-17 Thread Sean Hefty
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] RE: [ofa-general] Re: RFC OFED-1.3 installation

2007-07-17 Thread Scott Weitzenkamp \(sweitzen\)
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

[ewg] RE: [ofa-general] Re: RFC OFED-1.3 installation

2007-07-17 Thread Scott Weitzenkamp \(sweitzen\)
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

[ewg] Re: [ofa-general] Re: RFC OFED-1.3 installation

2007-07-17 Thread Roland Dreier
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

[ewg] Re: [ofa-general] Re: RFC OFED-1.3 installation

2007-07-17 Thread Doug Ledford
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