On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 03:18:30PM +0200, Axel Thimm alleged: > On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 02:40:11PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > > Michael Schwendt wrote: > > >>Tonight I've received the following bug > > >>http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=201279 > > >>I'm packager of the qstat tool. But the torque (in torque-client) > > >>already consists the /usr/bin/qstat. > > > > >Why isn't this program called "torque-qstat"? You could patch it and > > >rename it like that. What is the sense in creating such a short and > > >generic name like "qstat"? Is the program useful outside of "torque"? > > >Could it be placed in /usr/libexec/torque/qstat instead if not renamed? > > Thanks for opinoin, but I think some miscommunication is present here. > > I'm not a packager of torque. As I understand you correctly the issue > > inhere torque than qstat. Anyway I've filled bug to torque with > > references to this maillist discussion already. I'm wating for torque > > packager response. > > The bugzilla URL would be nice. > > On the use of qstat: qstat/qsub and friends have been around in > Unix/Linux queuing systems for some decades now, and it is expected by > users of these systems to find the tools under qstat and not > dqs-qstat, nqs-qstat or torque-qstat. The name "qstat" is actually a requirement in POSIX 1003.2d, and as Axel stated, it has been implemented by many batch queueing systems over the decades. If we had more than 1 batch queueing system, than setting up an alternatives system would work. > I'm not sure how to fix this issue, but renaming qstat in torque is > bad. Given that not many systems will run quake and a queuing managing > system in parallel maybe Conflicts: is the lesser evil. Why bother with a Conflicts: tag? They already conflict, don't they? -- Garrick Staples, Linux/HPCC Administrator University of Southern California
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