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. Thanks > > Thank you, > Shane St Savage
