Bug 1392882

Summary:	please provide mpich on el6, limited arch for ppc64
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Dave Love <dave.love>
Component:	mpich	Assignee:	Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek>
Status:	CLOSED DEFERRED	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	26	CC:	dakingun, orion, zbyszek
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Description Dave Love 2016-11-08 12:14:07 UTC

Description of problem:

MPI packages currently have to special-case mpich on el6 ppc64, where it's not available.  It would be useful to have it in EPEL6 under the limited arch rules to simplify MPI packaging generally.

RHEL 6's mpich-3.1-5 srpm builds directly (scratch in http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=16351350).

Comment 1 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 2016-11-08 13:42:24 UTC

"Limited arch rules"?

Comment 2 Orion Poplawski 2016-11-08 13:58:21 UTC

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL:Packaging#Limited_Arch_Packages

Comment 3 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 2016-11-08 14:05:46 UTC

That looks complicated. So far I managed to avoid having to integrate with Red Hat so closely. Dunno, I have nothing against building mpich for el6, but I have too many other things on my plate. If somebody else wants to do it, feel free.

Comment 4 Dave Love 2016-11-09 11:03:13 UTC

[Apologies -- I was afraid referring to the policy might be insulting, but I didn't know about it either.]

There's (I think) suitable source at https://loveshack.fedorapeople.org/mpich-3.1-0.5.el6.src.rpm which should just need installing on an el6 branch.

Comment 5 Orion Poplawski 2016-11-11 16:17:00 UTC

Seems good - Dave you'll want to request a el6 branch in pkgdb - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/package/rpms/mpich/ and then Zbigniew can approve it.

Comment 6 Fedora End Of Life 2017-02-28 10:34:55 UTC

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 26 development cycle.
Changing version to '26'.

Comment 7 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 2017-11-12 12:13:30 UTC

I'll be happy to give ACLs to anyone who wants to build for epel. I'm closing this now because of lack of activity.