On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 9:07 PM Chris Murphy <lists(a)colorremedies.com> wrote:
On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 2:02 PM Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)mattdm.org> wrote:
>
> This only happened to come up because of a multilib glitch, but I'm
> wondering why rdma-core is on the default Workstation image. It seems
> unlikely that any of our users have Infiniband on their desktops.
My guess: it's brought in by multipathd which is brought in by anaconda.
Your guess is wrong, it was due to libpcap being linked against
libibverbs to be able to decode IB packets which in turn pulled in
rdma-core, I split out the one library into libibverbs-core to pull in
the bare minimum pieces that would never be used in the vast majority
of use cases, but the maintainer didn't like that, rdma-core itself
can now be removed, and shouldn't be pulled in for the latest rawhide
images, but libibverbs still has a lot of stuff that doesn't need to
be there for non IB users, but now I'm ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ because it's like
arguing with a wall. Details in:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1901086
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1837812