Gilles Filippini a écrit le 16/03/2020 à 17:56 : > Hi Drew, > > Drew Parsons a écrit le 03/03/2020 à 19:43 : >> Thinking about it, if possible it would be best to have hdf5-mpi.pc >> managed by update-alternatives, but tracking the mpi alternative. >> >> i.e. set up as a slave alternative depending on mpi, that updates if the >> local system switches mpi from openmpi to mpich. >> >> I'm not sure if this can be done cross-package, but good if it can. >> >> If it can be done, then the control logic would go in the postinst/prerm >> of libhdf5-openmpi-dev and libhdf5-mpich-dev rather than libhdf5-mpi-dev. > > I'm not sure what you have in mind here. I've just uploaded a new > release to experimental which should fix #953020. It may covers #953021 > as well. Please let me know...
As I understand it now, this is do-able if and only if there is a way to add a slave to an existing alternative. But I can't find such a way. Any idea? Thanks, _g.
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