Re: ARB 6.0 released
>>>>> "Andr" == Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> writes:
Roland> please note that Qlustar is providing DebMed backports. So
Roland> once you'll have moved to wheezy, you could include our repo
Roland> to get access to a lot of up-to-date DebMed stuff.
Andr> Its cool that you are doing backports. However, wouldn't it
Andr> be reasonable to use backports.debian.org? I assume there is
Andr> some considerable overlap in the work done by Qlustar and the
Andr> official backporters which could be shared.
Good attitude! Always looking for synergies. In this case, I'd have to
disappoint you though: Our backport packages are built with different
conventions than standard Debian backport ones, and we definitely don't
have the resources to manage two variants of them. It's already a lot of
work to manage two distros (soon 3) in various flavors, so we'll have to
capitulate at this point.
Roland> Most HPC compute centers currently use modules. I don't
Roland> think that docker is going to change that any time soon (and
Roland> hopefully never, see my opinion below). modules is available
Roland> as a package in Qlustar since a long time. Don't see why it
Roland> should be easier to maintain Docker instances of each
Roland> version rather than a cleanly compiled package on the
Roland> platform one is running on and using something like modules.
Andr> This looks like a vote: "Yes, please package modules" to me.
Andr> Would you mind injecting modules into Debian Med Git (perhaps
Andr> but not necessarily Debian Science Git in case you don't mind
Andr> joining another team)?
Well the vote has to come from somebody else, since Qlustar already has
it :) We'd put it into the DebMed repo. Joining another team is not
feasible for us right now(see above).
Elmar> It might be a candidate for packaging. Although it's not
Elmar> really "Debian Med".
Andr> That's no point here. We have packaged some other non-Med/Bio
Andr> stuff as preconditions for our work. On the other hand I
Andr> would rather put this into Debian Science field to find more
Andr> friends. As long as somebody is doing the work which provides
Andr> a reasonable solution for several people that's fine.
Roland> I could add the package on our list of to be maintained
Roland> packages. We'll probably also package lmod soon which is
Roland> supposed to be more advanced.
Andr> Sounds good. I'm in favour of officially packaging "anything
Andr> that makes sense to scientists"
Ok. It's on the list :)
All the best,
Roland
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