sorry, I though it was mentioned: motivation is to build .deb OMPI package as part of debian/ubuntu ofed distribution. (similar logic/rationale as buildrpm.sh which is part of OMPI)
On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 8:15 PM, Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) <jsquy...@cisco.com>wrote: > On Nov 7, 2013, at 9:10 AM, Ralph Castain <r...@open-mpi.org> wrote: > > >> how it is differ from other related stuf kept in svn to support: > >> > >> - rpm based distros? (dist/linux/) > >> - macos (contrib/dist/macosx-pkg/) > >> - __debian_stuff_could_be_here_as_well > > > > That's a fair point - I'll let the folks who added those directories > chime in as to their views on the difference, if any - I think some of > those may be historical and quite stale (i.e., they may only be there > because we forgot they existed) > > The RPM stuff that is there is for the official SRPM that is distributed > on www.open-mpi.org. This SRPM is not used by any distro -- it is used > by users. Distros have their own, very customized, RPMs for Open MPI. > > The Mac OS X package is defunct and should probably be removed. But it > was also used by users to install/uninstall Open MPI because OS X never > provided one themselves. > > However, both of these are distinguished by the fact that Debian has a > strong, community-involved Open MPI package maintainer (Sylvestre Ledru < > sylves...@debian.org>, who has already replied on these threads). It > seems weird for us to supplant his package for no reason -- is this new > OMPI Debian package better than his for some reason? I.e., what is the > exact motivation for this new Debian package? No information has been > provided on this front, which makes me very leery of it. > > -- > Jeff Squyres > jsquy...@cisco.com > For corporate legal information go to: > http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/ > > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list > de...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/devel >
