On 10/25/18 4:18 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 10:00:06AM -0400, Doug Ledford wrote: >> On Wed, 2018-10-24 at 12:43 +0200, Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin wrote: >>> On 10/23/18 10:57 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: >>>> From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> >>>> >>>> Now that we can produce them properly, add them. >>>> >>>> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> >>>> >>> SUSE packaging policy does not allow for static libraries (apart from a few rare exceptions). >>> Thus, they shouldn't enable them by default. I'm not against adding a RPM option to enable it if needed. >> Red Hat/Fedora have the same policy BTW. As far as Red Hat is >> concerned, it's all about making sure that security updates to libraries >> actually make it into use and insecure, broken libraries don't stay >> hanging around because they are statically linked into something. > Some of the distros have asked for this, do you want to just drop the > patches enabling this in packaging and leave it up to the packagers > for now? > > Jason If people have asked for this on RPM based distro, let's add a flag (disabled by default) for both RHEL and SUSE so any outside packager ( OFED ? ) can enable it very easily. Nicolas
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