[Freeipmi-devel] Re: [llnl-devel] Future re-organization of FreeIPMI source code base

[Albert Chu]

> I would love to see your rmcp-ping tool included too. That really
> helped me in hunting down the e1000-suspend bug.

Don't worry, it will be there too :-)  .. I just don't know how it would
fit within the structure.  Perhaps within "utils", or something else. 
We can decide later though.

Al

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----- Original Message -----
From: Anand Babu <address@hidden>
Date: Thursday, February 12, 2004 5:29 pm
Subject: Re: [llnl-devel] Future re-organization of FreeIPMI source code
base

> I was thinking about the same issue. Your proposed solution is the
> best way to go. You can already see a dummy freeipmi directory in CVS
> for this purpose. Organizing everything under one freeipmi tree will
> be the last step before public FreeIPMI release.
> 
> However libfreeipmi will have its own *internal* library versioning
> scheme (refer configure.ac) to keep track of API compatibilities.  
> 
> I would love to see your rmcp-ping tool included too. That really
> helped me in hunting down the e1000-suspend bug.
> 
> -ab.
> 
> ,----[ Albert Chu <address@hidden> ]
> | Hey AB,
> | 
> | Jim and I were talking about the organization of the FreeIPMI
> | libraries and utilities.  At some point, we feel that the FreeIPMI
> | source base should be re-organized to support a FreeIPMI "Core" 
> and a
> | number of FreeIPMI subpackages.
> | 
> | Right now, the organization is set such that we'll have a number of
> | rpms.
> | 
> | libfreeipmi-a-b-c rpm ipmipower-l-m-n rpm fish-x-y-z rpm utils-o-
> p-q
> | rpm
> | 
> | The a-b-c vs. x-y-z is intentional, to show that all of the rpm
> | version numbers can be different.
> | 
> | I propose the following organization which will be built by a single
> | freeipmi.spec file.
> | 
> | freeipmi-e-f-g freeipmi-ipmipower-e-f-g freeipmi-utils-e-f-g
> | 
> | The code repository, would be setup like:
> | 
> | freeipmi/ freeipmi/src/ freeipmi/src/libfreeipmi freeipmi/src/fish
> | freeipmi/src/utils freeipmi/src/ipmipower
> | 
> | libfreeipmi, fish, and some utils will be part of the "core" 
> package.| The subpackages utils and ipmipower would have an rpm 
> dependency on
> | the "core" package.
> | 
> | There are a number of advantages to this organization.
> | 
> | 1) RPM numbers will be consistent between all the rpm packages.
> |    Making it easier for users to upgrade their system.  They will 
> not|    have to know fiddle with what library versions work with what
> |    utils/ipmipower and vice versa.
> | 
> | 2) this organization forces developers to double-check and make sure
> |    that changes to libfreeipmi do not break fish/utils/ipmipower.
> | 
> | #2 is the major reason to do this.
> | 
> | Let me know what you think.
> | 
> | Al
> `----
> 
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> Anand Babu
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