The undocumented openmpi and mpich updates in RHEL6.6 have broken binary compatibility and seem to be provoking general rebuilds of things in EPEL. While that may be OK for things that are packaged in EPEL, it at best doesn't help with our HPC users' locally-built programs or local/copr-published rpms (especially if the rebuilds involve their own ABIs incompatibilities, like scalapack currently in testing). It seems to me that the best approach, assuming Red Hat won't address the issue, is to supply compatibility packages in EPEL if that will work. I haven't had a chance to try, but I'll probably have to make something work eventually for openmpi, and presumably there are plenty of people in a similar situation. The updates are blocked by the dependencies of many installed packages here, but it will be increasingly awkward with packages that can't be updated without rebuilds. Has anyone tried that tack already, or is it clear it can't work for some reason? -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
