On 18 December 2012 11:33, Paul Hargrove <phhargr...@lbl.gov> wrote: > > With all due respect to Alan, removing the blcr-dkms package from the build > is *not* a fix for the reported problem > "blcr: Does not build/work with Linux 2.6.39 or later".
I agree that this is less than ideal and will upload a new version as soon as a suitable one is released. > With the removal of the kernel module, the user space utilities in the > blcr-util package still all fail with recent kernels, since they require the > kernel module to function: > > <code> > $ cr_checkpoint 0 > Checkpoint failed: support missing from kernel > </code> The current upload is intended as a stop-gap to avoid the complete removal from Wheezy, which would have necessitated changes to the MPI packages and made future support harder. As it stands userspace fails gracefully and it's simple enough to slot working kernelspace support back in as/when. Alan > As announced in November on the BLCR mailing list > [https://hpcrdm.lbl.gov/pipermail/checkpoint/2012-November/000526.html], I am > working toward of goal of BLCR support for all current Linux kernel versions > by the end of this year. In fact, I am expecting a Beta release of > blcr-0.8.5 later this week, for testing. > > -Paul > > -- > Paul H. Hargrove phhargr...@lbl.gov > Future Technologies Group > Computer and Data Sciences Department > Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
