On 20 February 2015 at 16:54, Andrew Haley <aph@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 02/16/2015 04:17 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> I don't buy this argument wrt. Fedora.
>
> Fedora is a rapid moving, forward looking distro, in which such
> regressions should be fixed and not be worked around by compat-libs.
That rather assumes that the only use for Fedora libraries is running
programs that are part of Fedora rather than programs that a user
installs from elsewhere. While this may be true, it's not necessarily
a good thing.
Andrew.
I'd also add that its not *regressions* that I was referring too. In fact for numerical work, a
change in compiler options, or compiler version is likely to change results - there is no assumption
of a bug being present.
On 20 February 2015 at 12:47, Casey Jao <casey.jao@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Since Fedora serves as a blueprint for RHEL, CentOS, and Scientific
Linux, which do get used in the scientific community and encounter the
issues Martyn mentioned, any technical framework that Fedora develops to
handle those issues would do the larger community quite a service, even
if it does not get used that often by Fedora users.
Exactly. So for the admin in such environments it would be nice if;
$yum install blas
# installs into /usr/lib
$yum --versioned install blas
# installs, e.g. into /opt/fedora/blas-3.5.0-10/lib/ and creates an appropriate
# /etc/modulefiles/blas/3.5.0-10 so that the user can select to use it.
Without professing expertise on the best method, it appears that packages being
more easily relocatable in this way would be entirely useful.
Is this much different to a convenience extension/wrapper to "yum --installroot=XXX" which handles the details?
Martyn
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