Description of problem: Package installs several broken symlinks Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): lam-7.1.2-14.el5 How reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install RHEL v5.3 2. Note broken LAM symlinks Actual results: Broken symlinks Expected results: All symlinks should resolve. Additional info: # symlinks -tr /usr/lib/lam/bin/ dangling: /usr/lib/lam/bin/hf77 -> mpif77 dangling: /usr/lib/lam/bin/hcc -> mpicc dangling: /usr/lib/lam/bin/hcp -> mpiCC # rpm -v -V lam | grep bin ........ /usr/lib/lam/bin ........ /usr/lib/lam/bin/bfctl ........ /usr/lib/lam/bin/bfstate ........ /usr/lib/lam/bin/doom ........ /usr/lib/lam/bin/fctl ........ /usr/lib/lam/bin/filedr ........ /usr/lib/lam/bin/fstate ........ /usr/lib/lam/bin/hboot ........ /usr/lib/lam/bin/hcc ........ /usr/lib/lam/bin/hcp ........ /usr/lib/lam/bin/hf77 ........ /usr/lib/lam/bin/ipcdr ........ /usr/lib/lam/bin/kdump ........ /usr/lib/lam/bin/lamboot ........ /usr/lib/lam/bin/lamcheckpoint ........ /usr/lib/lam/bin/lamclean ........ /usr/lib/lam/bin/lamd ........ /usr/lib/lam/bin/lamd_bforward ........ /usr/lib/lam/bin/lamd_bufferd ........ /usr/lib/lam/bin/lamd_dli_inet ........ /usr/lib/lam/bin/lamd_dlo_inet ........ /usr/lib/lam/bin/lamd_echod ........ /usr/lib/lam/bin/lamd_filed ........ /usr/lib/lam/bin/lamd_flatd ........ /usr/lib/lam/bin/lamd_haltd ........ /usr/lib/lam/bin/lamd_iod ........ /usr/lib/lam/bin/lamd_kenyad ........ /usr/lib/lam/bin/lamd_kernel ........ /usr/lib/lam/bin/lamd_loadd ........ /usr/lib/lam/bin/lamd_router ........ /usr/lib/lam/bin/lamd_traced ........ /usr/lib/lam/bin/lamd_versiond ........ /usr/lib/lam/bin/lamexec ........ /usr/lib/lam/bin/lamgrow ........ /usr/lib/lam/bin/lamhalt ........ /usr/lib/lam/bin/laminfo ........ /usr/lib/lam/bin/lamnodes ........ /usr/lib/lam/bin/lamrestart ........ /usr/lib/lam/bin/lamshrink ........ /usr/lib/lam/bin/lamtrace ........ /usr/lib/lam/bin/lamwipe ........ /usr/lib/lam/bin/loadgo ........ /usr/lib/lam/bin/mpiexec ........ /usr/lib/lam/bin/mpimsg ........ /usr/lib/lam/bin/mpirun ........ /usr/lib/lam/bin/mpitask ........ /usr/lib/lam/bin/recon ........ /usr/lib/lam/bin/state ........ /usr/lib/lam/bin/sweep ........ /usr/lib/lam/bin/tkill ........ /usr/lib/lam/bin/tping ........ /usr/lib/lam/bin/wipe
This bug is exceedingly stale. As it turns out, the problem is that lam is split up into lam, lam-devel, and lam-libs. The symlinks should have been part of lam-devel (which contains the mpi programs the symlinks point to), but that was missed. The easy workaround of course is to just install lam-devel and there are no dangling symlinks. Given that I doubt lam will ever see another update in rhel5, and given that this has such an easy workaround and no real ill side-effects, I'm closing this bug out as WONTFIX.