[Pkg-openmpi-maintainers] Bug#889715: libopenmpi-dev: problem in alternatives handling

[Alastair McKinstry]

Hi,

This appears to be a downgrade from experimental 3.0.1*.

The mpi alternatives for 3.0.1* are a work in progress and buggy in
experimental, which is one of the reasons I did a 2.1.1-8 release; can
you clear the mpi-* alternatives by hand and install?

(I will be adding clear-up code to 3.0.1-1 proper for this cleanup)

Best regards

Alastair


On 06/02/2018 09:38, Laurent Bonnaud wrote:
> Package: libopenmpi-dev
> Version: 2.1.1-8
> Severity: important
>
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> here is the problem:
>
> Setting up libopenmpi-dev (2.1.1-8) ...
> update-alternatives: error: alternative link /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmpi.so is already managed by mpi-x86_64-linux-gnu
> dpkg: error processing package libopenmpi-dev (--configure):
>  installed libopenmpi-dev package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 2
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mpi-default-dev:
>  mpi-default-dev depends on libopenmpi-dev; however:
>   Package libopenmpi-dev is not configured yet.
>
> dpkg: error processing package mpi-default-dev (--configure):
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: buster/sid
>   APT prefers unstable-debug
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-3-rt-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> LSM: AppArmor: enabled
>
> Versions of packages libopenmpi-dev depends on:
> ii  libc6           2.27-0experimental0
> ii  libhwloc-dev    2.0.0~rc2-2
> ii  libhwloc5       1.11.9-1
> ii  libibverbs-dev  16.1-2
> ii  libopenmpi2     2.1.1-8
> ii  openmpi-common  2.1.1-8
>
> libopenmpi-dev recommends no packages.
>
> Versions of packages libopenmpi-dev suggests:
> pn  openmpi-doc  <none>
>
> -- no debconf information
>
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