Bug 833354 - alternatives support for mpich2
Summary: alternatives support for mpich2
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora EPEL
Classification: Fedora
Component: mpich2
Version: el5
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Deji Akingunola
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-06-19 09:47 UTC by Christos Triantafyllidis
Modified: 2012-06-19 10:51 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2012-06-19 10:51:44 UTC
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Description Christos Triantafyllidis 2012-06-19 09:47:18 UTC
Description of problem:
It looks like the mpich2 package is owning the /usr/bin/mpiexec file which is actually an alternatives target. I think that this is not the indented way of packaging tools with alternatives support as if more than one packages do so, a conflict between them is created.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
mpich2-1.2.1p1-1, it seems that in koji there is a successful build for 1.4.1p1 but this is in trashcan. This version removes alternative support according to the changelog. (I hope that it doesn't own this file as the name is too generic to be owned by a specific package).

How reproducible:
Every time


Steps to Reproduce:
# rpm -qf /usr/bin/mpiexec
  
Actual results:
mpich2-1.2.1p1-1.el5

Expected results:
file /usr/bin/mpiexec is not owned by any package

like the case of java keytool which supports alternatives:
# rpm -qf /usr/bin/keytool 
file /usr/bin/keytool is not owned by any package

Additional info:
none

Comment 1 Christos Triantafyllidis 2012-06-19 10:51:44 UTC
Ooops i just found out that "%ghost" is used in files section of .spec.

For some reason i believed that %ghost files doesn't appear in rpm -qf output.

Closing this ticket as a won't fix.

Sorry for the inconvenience this may have caused.


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