Looking at the GSOC, I noticed that it’s mentioned that one of Prefix’s goals is to bring Gentoo to HPC, and actually that’s where I was trying to use Prefix.
I don’t know if you’re familiar with Spack https://spack.io/, but I was exploring using Prefix and portage, because it has a larger community and more features.
Spack grinds my gears because it’s one of my irritations with the HPC and supercomputing community. There’s a lack of due diligence of determining if something else exists, along with a lot of “not invented here” syndrome. This results in reinventing something that already exists, but then with fewer features and having a much smaller community to support it, as well.
On Wed, Apr 03, 2019 at 08:40:59AM +0800, Benda Xu wrote:
Hi Jon,
Jon Woodring [email protected] writes:
Is there an option for running the bootstrap script to make sure it is using non-tilde packages? (Or maybe latest prefix overlay patches, i.e. is it a bug?)
I noticed that I couldn’t install prefix with glibc unless I set the package atom to the last non-tilde version (=sys-libs/glibc-2.27-r6).
FYI, it fails with the latest glibc complaining that it can’t find a proper Python environment, which I am guessing, that the patches from the prefix overlay don’t exist? (I’m just hazarding a wild guess.)
If it’s a bug, I can submit a bug report; I wasn’t sure if it was user error or not.
Thank you for your interest. It is a huge bug actually: Prefix has not ever been stabilized.
In the mean while, I am interested in mentoring a motivated student to carry us through the stabilizing process.
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2019/Ideas#Stabilize_Gentoo_Prefix
Please help spread this GSOC idea to the potential students.
Yours, Benda
