Re: infiniband-diags can't be installed in Fedora CoreOS due to perl dependency

[Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>]

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?

Thanks

> 
> This is really a Fedora question, we just follow what they
> decide. Most likely the right answer is to put this kind of stuff in a
> container and not run on the minimal coreos image.
> 
> Jason