Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=676879 --- Comment #12 from Christos Triantafyllidis <christos.triantafyllidis@xxxxxxxxx> 2011-03-16 12:48:19 EDT --- Hi Doug, i would agree with most of the things you are writing but i have the following comments: a) As stated in package description, this package supports only the PBS batch system family. Given that Fedora has only torque in its repositories i would say that this package supports all PBS batch systems available. b) Regarding MPI libraries i totally agree that different implementation use different parameters, namely for packages that are available in fedora at the moment we have the following libraries: - MPICH2 - OpenMPI >From those, OpenMPI (as already commented) provides a mpiexec that works as far as OpenMPI is build against the batch system (namely torque). So i find much more convenient to have as default the parameters that MPICH needs as this is actually the one that creates the need for "yet another mpiexec". Note that this is the DEFAULT communication method, meaning that can be overridden at any time. I may not know the Fedora packaging internals that well but i clearly find it a bad idea to have the same code installed multiple times just to avoid the usage of a parameter. Are you sure this is actually needed to include it to the distribution? c) The installation should be totally transparent to anyone who don't intent to use it as it is enabled by the relevant environment module. For those who intent to use it, i guess it is not that inconvenient to add their runtime parameters if needed. d) This build (in specific the 0.83 el5 one) has been used extensively in our Grid cluster on production quality without a single error report. Finally, i'm not a mpiexec fan... we (as a grid site) are using it and with current config this seems to make our users/community happy. Given that i'm building this package for our infrastructure i thought it may be useful for others. If the resulted package is not usable for us i don't see any reason to maintain it for fedora :). Regards, Christos -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ package-review mailing list package-review@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-review