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