Guus Sliepen wrote: > On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:31:43AM +0000, Guy Coates wrote: > >> * Package name : libibumad >> Version : 1.2.3 >> Upstream Author : Voltaire, Inc. >> * URL : http://www.openfabrics.org > > I do not see a libibumad tarball there, I did find OFED-1.4.tgz which > contained a SRPM for it... if this is the only way upstream distributes > these libraries, please suggest to them that it is better if they publish > normal tarballs.
Hmm, that is the difficult part. There are individual packages and there is OFED. OFED is a collection of many packages, mostly not the recent version, but a more tested stable version. E.g. IB management packages can be found here: http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/management/ I already wondered all the time, which would be better for Debian, the packages from OFED or the individual packages. IHMO, extracting all the srpms is a pain... > >> Description : OpenFabrics Alliance InfiniBand umad (user MAD) >> library >> >> libibumad provides the user MAD library functions which sit on top of >> the user MAD modules in the kernel. These are used by the IB diagnostic >> and management tools, including OpenSM. > > I have absolutely no clue what this does, except that it has something to > do > with InfiniBand. What is MAD? What is OpenSM? What functionality does > this library provide? Also drop "OpenFabrics Alliance" from the short > description. If you want to mention it, do it in the long description. > The problem is, there is nowhere a real description of what all these IB libraries are actually doing. MAD = management datagram. As far as I understand it, you need this library to send IB management packages from user space. OpenSM = open subnet manager. Each IB network needs at least one running subnet manager, which controls the routing between ports. From the man page of opensm: opensm provides an implementation of an InfiniBand Subnet Manager and Administration. Such a software entity is required to run for in order to initialize the InfiniBand hardware (at least one per each InfiniBand subnet). Guy, it is a bit a pity, since you did all the work again, we already had done at q-leap :( IMHO all these IB packages are too many for one maintainer, what do you think to make an alioth for these? Cheers, Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
