Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report. Summary: Merge Review: lam https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=225979 ------- Additional Comments From dledford@xxxxxxxxxx 2007-02-05 00:32 EST ------- In regards to dropping LAM, I'm all for it (and I currently own it). In regards to the system wide default issue. Although the LAM and OpenMPI packages attempt to set the system wide default via alternatives, that's really only for people that want to be lazy and just use whatever is there. The purpose of the /usr/share/{lam,openmpi}-<version>/bin* directories is so that people can still run their preferred application without it being the system wide default (openmpi in particular needs to be called with $0 being a correct filename or else it won't find the right modules, so you can't just create unique symlinks to the binaries). If people want the alternatives stuff removed strongly enough, then I could just make all the mpi implementations use non-default locations and do away with the overlap entirely, although I suspect that would violate the linux FHS, so the justification would need to be strong enough to do so. As for the source not including the APSL files, I was informed (by legal) that the exact wording of the APSL makes it questionable whether or not it is actually legal to have both APSL and GPL source distributed in the same tarball, and so I removed the APSL files from the tarball we ship at their request. I don't really know enough about the legal stuff to comment on whether or not that's right, so I can't argue the correctness of the action, I was just doing what I was told (however, I was told this in regards to RHEL, not Fedora, so it may have been an incorrect assumption on my part that the same legal issue would exist in Fedora). As for the dangling symlink issue, that's from the practice of putting only versioned .so files in -libs (aka, totalview.so.0.0.0 and totalview.so.0) and putting the bare .so file in -devel. The -devel package should have a Requires: on the -libs package, which would negate the dangling symlink (pauses to go check)...indeed, the base package Requires: -libs, and -devel Requires: the base package, so the dependency chain is in fact in tact, rpmlint just gave a false positive in this case. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug, or are watching the QA contact. _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-review mailing list Fedora-package-review@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-review