On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 07:52:19AM +0200, Leon Romanovsky wrote: > Sorry, but I'm still missing how mlx5 installation will be handled. > > The ibverbs-provider installs different *-rdmav2.so files and it should > install libmlx5-rdmav2.so among them. No, the symlink from -rdmav2.so needs to go to a real file not another symlink. > If we move libmlx5.so to libibverbs-dev, how will symlink be > created? libmlx5.so is the 'devel' symlink, it is only used by the compiler during linking which is why it must be placed in the -dev package. > What will user see after installing libibverbs + ibverbs-provider? libmlx5-rdmav2.so should be ../libmlx5.so.1.0.13 > And what will be in case of libibverbs-dev + ibverbs-provider? Then you get libmlx5.so -> libmlx5.so.1.0.13 and the man pages and header files. libibverbs-dev will need to depend on the ibverbs-provider package also. This is all also true for RPM systems. Jason -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
