[Pkg-openmpi-maintainers] New Debian package version?

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

Hi Manuel,

Thanks for bringing some life back to this list :)

On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 01:20:53PM +0200, Manuel Prinz wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I was wondering if we should prepare a new version of our package. I
> applied Petr's patch for kFreeBSD to my local repository and could check
> it in[1]. This possibly doesn't justify a new upload but I think there
> are at least two other issues I'd like to have discussed:
> 
>  * QA: The Debcheck page hasn't been update for ages, but the problem
> mentioned still remains: libopenmpi1 is optional an depends on
> libibverbs1 which is extra. The easiest way to fix that is to make
> OpenMPI extra, too. Looking at the Policy definition of optional and
> extra, extra fits better to OpenMPI anyway (IMHO).

Ahh. Yes, switching to extra is the easiest. What do lam, mpich2, ... have?
 
>  * libibverbs: The library is for use of InfiniBand. Our cluster doesn't
> use (or better: have) InfiniBand, so OpenMPI throws warnings when an MPI
> job is run. My question is whether we really need to depend on that
> library or if we can/should provide a seperate package without
> libibverbs dependancy or document in README.Debian how to turn it off?
> My experience shows that the warnings irritates MPI users and I'd like
> to avoid that, if possible.

Didn't that change? I think 1.2.3 no longer warns, and/or someone told us 
how to turn the option off via config. I can check if you want.

Another issue we need to address is a follow-up re the build failures for 
missing 'atomistic' ops to contact the two or three people who offered help.
We should take them up on it, but I am overly busy for the the next two weeks 
or so. Anybody else?

We should look at the five open bugs. For arches with no hope of building, 
we should exclude them in debian/control.

So yes, let's do some work in the svn trunk and let's make that a new released 
once we have two, three, four, ... changes in there.

>  1. Since it's in upstream's trunk, the patch would not last very long.
> But I'm not quite sure when upstream will release the next version.

It's easy to comment patches in or out with the dpatch system, so go for it.

Dirk

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