[Pkg-openmpi-maintainers] Bug#493876: Bug#493876: openmpi-bin adds conflicting alternative 'mpiexec'

[Alexander Achenbach]

Hi Dirk,

thanks for the comment.

Purging is not an option -- we are transitioning people on up to
300 machines.

However, it seems that neither mpich-bin nor lam-runtime currently
(as of lenny) use the 'mpiexec' alternatives class. Instead, they
register a class 'mpirun' only. Did I miss something?

Cheers,
Alex

Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> Manuel brought up the possible issue with symmetry, or lack thereof,
> regarding MPICH.  I personally switched to using orterun as the frontend, or
> even slurm's tools, so I can't really comment.
> 
> Further, lam is not all that actively managed inside Debian and upstream, so
> I would simply suggest to make the problem go away ... by purging lam.  Is
> that an option for you?
> 
> Dirk
>