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

[Ondrej Certik]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Manuel Prinz <debian at pinguinkiste.de> 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.

>  Sorry for jumping in a little late, had no access to my mails
>  yesterday...
>
>  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... 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. ;)

I currently don't have time to play with it, but I don't think it's
about some system
acting weird - we should try to find the problem in
update-alternatives and fix it.

Ondrej