[Pkg-ofed-devel] Why is debhelper (>= 7.0) required

[Guy Coates]

Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm wondering why most of the ofed packages require debhelper (>=
> 7.0). I need backports for etch and that means backporting dpkg,
> debhelper, man-db and maybe more. Is 7.0 really needed or is that just
> there because stable has it?


It is there because dh_make automatically put it there when I created the
packages. I think you can back the version down without any problems. You will
need to edit debian/compat too.

AFAIK, the only other thing that you might need to change is the  ./configure
line in the rules file for the ofa-kernel-source package; some of the modules
may not build correctly against the 2.6.18 kernel.  (I have not tested with the
etch 2.6.24 kernel, but I suspect you will have better luck with that.)

You will also need to grab the libibverbs, librdmacm1, libmthca1, libmlx4-1 and
libcxgb3-1 packages from lenny too.

Cheers,

Guy

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