[Pkg-openmpi-maintainers] Bug#464795: Bug#464795: Bug#464795: Bug#464795: dead symlink in /usr/lib/libmpi.so

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 14 February 2008 at 13:45, Manuel Prinz wrote:
| reopen 464795 =
| thanks
| 
| [ Reopening the bug with Ondrej as submitter, so we can close it in the
| changelog and Ondrej gets notified when the fix is in sid. Ondrej, hope
| that's OK with you! ]

Sure thing!
| 
| Sorry for jumping in a little late, had no access to my mails
| yesterday...

No problem.

| Am Mittwoch, den 13.02.2008, 16:58 -0600 schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel:
| > So Manuel, could it be that the third line here
| > 
| > update-alternatives \
| > 	--install /usr/include/mpi mpi /usr/lib/openmpi/include 5 \
| > 	--slave /usr/lib/libmpi.so libmpi.so /usr/lib/openmpi/lib/libmpi.so.0 \
| > 
| > needs a fix to 
| > 
| > 	--slave /usr/lib/libmpi.so libmpi.so /usr/lib/openmpi/lib/libmpi.so \
| 
| This is on of the possible fixes. I applied that to SVN trunk, the
| resulting packages seem to be fine and work for me. Wondering how that
| slipped through unnoticed on my system...

Me too!!  And I built Rmpi and another mpi-using package against it. Very
strange!

| Anyway, I had a problem when
| upgrading to the packages build from trunk. I had to *purge* the old
| packages because the symlink was not updated. (Maybe a bug in
| update-alternatives?) I'd be interested if this behaves the same way on
| your system(s), maybe my one is just acting weird again. ;)

We may need an explicit removal in .preinst for it, just in case. 

Which link was it?  Which package?
 
| Dirk: I also corrected the dependancy on libibverbs which was broken
| too. I think we should upload because we can close two bugs. If you're
| still busy with R, I could give that a try.

I should be able to do it this eve. Good enough?

Dirk

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