Bug 1377200

Summary: libmthca-devel-1.0.6-1.el5.x86_64.rpm is not available for libmthca-1.0.6-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Stefan Nemeth <snemeth>
Component: libmthcaAssignee: Jarod Wilson <jarod>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Infiniband QE <infiniband-qe>
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Version: 5.11CC: ddutile, dledford
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Description Stefan Nemeth 2016-09-19 07:40:44 UTC
Description of problem:

libmthca-devel-1.0.6-1.el5.x86_64.rpm is not available for libmthca-1.0.6-1.el5.x86_64.rpm

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
100%

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Actual results:
latest devel package is 
libmthca-devel-1.0.4-6.el5_1.1.x86_64.rpm

Expected results:


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Comment 1 Jarod Wilson 2016-09-20 16:09:45 UTC
libmthca-devel was obsoleted by libmthca-static, but for some reason, the Obsoletes: line was dropped from the spec. Install -static instead and all should be fine. Not sure if this is something worth fixing in an updated package, but it would be nothing more than a one-line spec file addition.

Comment 4 Doug Ledford 2016-09-21 15:42:07 UTC
No, it's not that we didn't make a -devel package, it's that what used to be called mthca-devel by upstream is called mthca-static in rhel (the -static name is more accurate since the -devel package only contained the static library and nothing else, there is no real -devel for mthca, to write code for the mthca driver, you have to have libibverbs-devel installed and write a libibverbs application, it's libibverbs that uses libmthca, not the user application directly).

Comment 5 Chris Williams 2017-04-18 22:00:57 UTC
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 shipped it's last minor release, 5.11, on September 14th, 2014. On March 31st, 2017 RHEL 5 exited Production Phase 3 and entered Extended Life Phase. For RHEL releases in the Extended Life Phase, Red Hat  will provide limited ongoing technical support. No bug fixes, security fixes, hardware enablement or root-cause analysis will be available during this phase, and support will be provided on existing installations only.  If the customer purchases the Extended Life-cycle Support (ELS), certain critical-impact security fixes and selected urgent priority bug fixes for the last minor release will be provided.  For more details please consult the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle Page:
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This BZ does not appear to meet ELS criteria so is being closed WONTFIX. If this BZ is critical for your environment and you have an Extended Life-cycle Support Add-on entitlement, please open a case in the Red Hat Customer Portal, https://access.redhat.com ,provide a thorough business justification and ask that the BZ be re-opened for consideration of an errata. Please note, only certain critical-impact security fixes and selected urgent priority bug fixes for the last minor release can be considered.