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On 26/02/08 10:45 -0500, Justin Bronder wrote: |
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> I've been spending the majority of my Gentoo-related time working on a |
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> solution to bug 44132 [1], basically, trying to find a way to gracefully |
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> handle multiple installs of various MPI implementations at the same time in |
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> Gentoo. Theres more information about the solution in my devspace [2], but |
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> a quick summary is that there is a new package (empi) that is much like |
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> crossdev, a new eselect module for empi, and a new eclass that handles both |
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> mpi implementations and packages depending on mpi. |
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> So, I think I have pushed this work far enough along for it to actually be |
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> somewhat officially offered. My question then, is where should this be |
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> located? There are several mpi packages in the science overlay already, so |
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> should I push this work to there, or would it be more appropriate to make a |
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> new overlay specifically for hp-cluster? |
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> Future work related to this project will be getting all mpi implementations |
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> and dependant packages converted in the same overlay before bringing it up on |
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> -dev for discussion about inclusion into the main tree. |
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> I have no real preference either way, but the science team does already have |
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> an overlay :) Let me know what you think. |
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> [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44132 |
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> [2] http://dev.gentoo.org/~jsbronder/README.empi.txt |
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So I've heard no complaints, I'll be committing this tonight. |
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Justin Bronder |