From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
To: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Cc: "St Savage, Shane" <Shane@axiomdatascience.com>,
"linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org" <linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: infiniband-diags can't be installed in Fedora CoreOS due to perl dependency
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2023 15:36:36 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZNvFtPSumuXfOLZt@ziepe.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230814182038.GA22185@unreal>
On Mon, Aug 14, 2023 at 09:20:38PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 14, 2023 at 12:32:24PM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 13, 2023 at 01:33:05PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > > On Sat, Aug 12, 2023 at 04:40:57PM +0000, St Savage, Shane wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > Just wanted to report that infiniband-diags cannot currently be installed in Fedora CoreOS because the perl dependency is explicitly forbidden.
> > > >
> > > > https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-config/blob/testing-devel/manifests/fedora-coreos.yaml#L170
> > > >
> > > > This is a bit unfortunate because it also prevents usage of all the non-perl utilities (ibstat, etc) included in infiniband-diags.
> > > >
> > > > Would it make sense to split the perl utilities to a separate package infiniband-diags-perl so that the C and shell utilities in infiniband-diags can be installed without the perl dependency?
> > >
> > > I suggest to remove perl dependency from rdma--core.spec and install
> > > perl-dependant scripts only if perl is found on the system.
> >
> > That is not how packaging is supposed to work
> >
> > Everything should be installed always
>
> Isn't how we use some packages in pyverbs?
No, just the test suite which we don't really package as an actual
binary
Jason
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-08-15 18:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-08-12 16:40 infiniband-diags can't be installed in Fedora CoreOS due to perl dependency St Savage, Shane
2023-08-13 10:33 ` Leon Romanovsky
2023-08-14 15:32 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-08-14 18:20 ` Leon Romanovsky
2023-08-15 18:36 ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
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2023-08-13 0:20 Shane St. Savage
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