Bug 523998
| Summary: | Make LAM conform to guidelines or remove it from Fedora | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Susi Lehtola <susi.lehtola> |
| Component: | lam | Assignee: | Doug Ledford <dledford> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | dledford |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Reopened |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2010-02-19 23:14:10 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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Description
Susi Lehtola
2009-09-17 14:44:33 UTC
I'd rather just see lam deprecated or removed. It's very obsolete. That's an option too, remove it from F12 altogether..? ping? I'm not sure how to go about removing a package (although I think in Fedora parlance it's never *really* removed, just deprecated and removed from comps...you can still get to it via yum install from older repos or something like that). But, I think that's what needs done here. Done. Actually, I think you should follow http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/PackageEndOfLife This package has been obsolete for a long time and should be retired altogether from new distributions. Moreover, it has been obsoleted by openmpi long ago, so the openmpi packages should obsolete lam on the distribution that doesn't have lam anymore. Doing that would not be a comps change... reassigning. I've done everything except the comps change and the blacklist from repos change, and I've file the ticket with rel-eng to do those things. This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 12 development cycle. Changing version to '12'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping Okay, as F-12 has gone gold, now it is possible to remove lam from rawhide. Please write a statement about the obsoletion to fedora-devel. Maybe you could ask in the same message if someone is still interested enough in LAM to take ownership and clean up the package to conform to the MPI guidelines. (This only needs to be done for F-12. [Maybe F-11 too..?]) I sent a mail about the possible deprecation of lam on fedora-devel at http://www.linux-archive.org/fedora-development/291913-deprecation-lam-mpi.html As a reply to this I got a mail from Jeff Squyres (a faculty member of the team according to http://www.lam-mpi.org/about/devel/) asking us to finally pull the plug on LAM/MPI. Could we move forward with this? Thanks Jussi. I've known Jeff for a long time, and yes he was part of the LAM devel crew and is now a primary part of the Open MPI crew. If he agrees that we pull it, then I'm 1000% in agreement. So, checking CVS I see that it's still got a dead_package file in both devel and F-12. That just leaves re-creating the trac ticket to block the package from rawhide (it doesn't make sense to block if from F12 at this point). OK, just be sure to holler on fedora-devel about the removal some time before actually requesting the pullout. Both are already done. Trac ticket filed requesting removal from f13 and rawhide since it's been about 2 months now since I email f-d about the change. f-rel-eng trac ticket #3424 Blocked. |