Zach Lowry <zach@zachlowry.net> writes: > On Jan 13, 2008, at 6:17 AM, Mario Lang wrote: > >> According to the MPICH2 downloads page, you do provide >> Debian packaging of MPICH2. I have a few questions: >> * Do you know of any effort to keep Debian packaging current? > > Sure! Someone tends to email me about it once every couple of months, > and then so bogged down by the ridiculous amount of Debian > bureaucracy required to actually become a maintainer that they say > "Fuck It!". Well, I am already a Developer. I was just wondering if you know of any effort to get mpich2 into official Debian. I could do uploading, thats not a problem. Did anyone already do a license check? >> MPICH2 is now at 1.0.6. Do you perhaps current packages? > > I don't use Debian (or Linux!) anymore, and I don't bother with the > packages. Is anyone a little more actively working on this? I'd like to avoid duplication of effort here. I've tried to upgrade the 1.0.3 packaging to 1.0.6p1 but there are so many things broken that I'd probably rather do it again from scratch. I am asking because we are configuring a new HPC system based on Debian here, and I am trying to decide if I just compile mpich2 From source (probably necessary due to people needing a commercial fortran compiler anyway), or if I invest a little more time and get this actually right. Obviously, I can't spent too much of time during installation on this, and when the system goes live, I can't do much testing anymore. So if anyone has something, I'd like to join forces and try to get mpich2 into Debian. Technically, there are real good reasons to have MPICH2, our tests have shown that the ch3:ssm target has very good performance over the old network-only channels (on the systems we use). Since so many systems these days tend to be multicore (even desktops!) it seems like a good idea to have something like ch3:ssm available. -- CYa, Mario | Debian Developer <URL:http://debian.org/> .''`. | Get my public key via finger mlang@db.debian.org : :' : | 1024D/7FC1A0854909BCCDBE6C102DDFFC022A6B113E44 `. `' `- <URL:http://delysid.org/> <URL:http://www.staff.tugraz.at/mlang/>
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