[Pkg-ofed-devel] New sources for RDMA upstream

Jason Gunthorpe jgunthorpe at obsidianresearch.com
Wed Sep 14 18:36:21 UTC 2016


Hello Debian Maintainers,

We (the upstream of many of the RDMA packages) are re-organizing how
we deliver the source code. Instead of > 20 small repositories we are
combining the tree into a single source.

A preview is available on my github here:

 https://github.com/jgunthorpe/rdma-plumbing

When it goes live the tree will be available under a team repository
on github. It will take some time for all the patches in the preview
to be fully reviewed into the official repo, and several are necessary
for the sample Debian packaging to work correctly.

You can read more on the subject in the discussion on the linux-rdma
mailing list:

  http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-rdma/msg39026.html
  http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-rdma/msg39328.html
  http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-rdma/msg40014.html
  http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-rdma/msg40086.html

We are talking about an approx Oct 1 cutoff date. After this point
patches will only appear in the new tree.

To help smooth things along I've prepared some sample Debian
packaging that is in-tree. It follows the latest packaging that Debian
unstable uses, not the packaging that pre-existed in-tree.

This can be used as a reference for the official packaging, I do not
wish to be a Debian Maintainer again :)

The main difference is that the providers are combined into a single
package 'ibverbs-providers', and upstream content that has never been
packaged for Debian is included (5 new providers, 4 more on the way,
and iwpmd are the main items).

I invite you to participate in the upstream community and ensure that
Debian is well represented. If you wish to take over the debian/
directory upstream and maintain the core packaging there (as Roland
did), I'm sure that would be welcomed by the team.

Jason



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