Description of problem: New version available; currently included version 3.4.4 is out of date, version 3.4.5 has been available since 09/08/04 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 3.4.4 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info: New version available from: http://www.netlib.org/pvm3/index.html
Also, shouldn't the header files be made into a separate package to conform with other fedora/rpm packaging practice such that there is following rpms: pvm (containing the libraries), pvmd (the daemon), pvmd-gui and pvm-devel (the header files). The following spec file for pvm looks like a very good model: http://cvs.pld.org.pl/SPECS/pvm.spec?rev=1.45
Also, note the patches applied in the specfile in Comment #2, in particular the patch to have pvm working over ssh rather than rsh - surely this is a good idea from a security perspective. Patches available here: http://cvs.pld.org.pl/SOURCES/
some variables should also be loaded after install: export PVM_RSH=/usr/bin/ssh export PVM_ROOT=/usr/share/pvm3 export PVM_ARCH=LINUXI386 export PVM_TMP=/tmp export PVM_DPATH=$PVM_ROOT/lib/pvmd
Straight from the release notes: "The latest PVM release 3.4.5 is mainly bug fixes and additional support for varying Linux distributions and some better 64-bit Linux/AMD support (like it doesn't seg fauly any more :-)." I can confirm that 3.4.4 runs on x86_64, but segfaults every now and then. IMHO this is worth an update in FC3 (maybe in updates-testing first?) and it's not just an enhancement that should target FC4. As to using ssh by default, some commercial applications are hardwired to use rsh (I have to struggle constantly with one of those... and the master process has to run on Windows, which means a flaky rshd, but I digress). If you are going to enable ssh as the default, I'd put big warnings in the update notice. Even better, I would postpone that for the FC4 release. Some surprises are probably to be avoided in the middle of a release's lifecycle.
Agreed with all comments above. Also, ignore my comment about patching to make ssh the default, that can be achieved by simply setting the environment variable PVM_RSH as Comment 3 said.
pvm-3.4.5-1 is now in FC4/rawhide, and will shortly be in fc3-updates. Meanwhile, you can download it from: http://people.redhat.com/~jvdias/pvm/FC3