Tasks?
Hi,
I was wondering if there's interest in creating (or recreating) a task
"parallel computing" and "parallel computing node". FTR, before
getting expelled from sid those tasks consisted of:
parallel-computing: lam2-dev, pvm-dev, mpich, scalapack-mpich-dev,
scalapack-lam-dev, scala pack-pvm-dev, blas-dev, atlas2-dev,
blacs-pvm-dev, blacs-mpich-dev, bing, netbase, fping, tcpdump, ntop,
netpipe-lam, netpipe-mpich, netpipe-pvm, netpipe-tcp, petsc-dev
parallel-computing-node: lam-runtime, mpich, pvm, scalapack1-lam,
scalapack1-mpich, scalapack1-p vm, blas1, atlas2, blacs1-lam,
blacs1-mpich, blacs1-pvm
Yes, there are some things missing there. Please enumerate them.
Looking at the tasksel documentation[0] it looks like the first thing
that's needed is to get a tiny bit of extra information on the control
file of each package that belongs to a task (I might be completely
wrong, but the docs aren't clear on this). Something like:
Package: lam2-dev
[The usual stuff]
Task: parallel-computing
Package: lam-runtime
[...]
Task: parallel-computing-node
After that you need to get a description included in a file in the
tasksel package if you want this to show up in tasksel's list.
Is anyone interested in this? Do you have recomentations regarding
packages that should be included here? Or do you prefer me to update
and reupload the tasks-p-c packages (which might or might now mean that
it shows up in tasksel's list)? From what I remember from Joey's
message to d-d this might not fit the profile for a tasksel's task
(it's too focused and it's not a "task"), so befone anyone starts
recompiling packages because of this measly change, I'd like to know if
there's interest. Next thing is asking the tasksel maintainer if this
can be included in tasksel's whatever (database, list, description
list, ???) and *then* start with the madness.
TIA for the feedback,
Marcelo
[0] /dev/null, I'll appreciate if someone corrects me
PS: Has anyone here looked at the Progeny autoinstaller? The pacakge
is called autoinstall, IIRC.
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