Re: ITP: aster -- Finite Element Analysis (FEA) software for engineering simulations
On May 29, 2011, at 2:28 PM, Andrea Palazzi wrote:
> Il giorno ven, 20/05/2011 alle 15.51 +0200, Sylvestre Ledru ha scritto:
>> Le vendredi 20 mai 2011 à 14:34 +0100, Andrea Palazzi a écrit :
>>> Just a little update: I did a quick test, and it seems that CA can be built and run happily without being linked to metis/metis-edf, but to scotchmetis instead.
>>> So, I'm going to update the package to use that library, then I'll start to dig into the other issues.
>>>
>>> But I'm a bit confused with all the scotch/ptscotch and also mumps/mumps-seq,-scotch and -ptscotch: which version of the libraries should be used for the serial build, and which for the parallel build?
>>>
>>> Sylvestre: maybe you can review and upload metis-edf and libmetis-edf to non-free? I haven'touched them since they compile and are lintian clean...
>> OK, I just added that in my todo list.
>> Could you review the copyright file before the upload ?
>>
>> Sylvestre
>
> A little update:
> - I've updated the copyright with the upstream approval to post the
> sources and binaries of metis on the debian mirrors
Great news so we could upload metis-edf, right?
> - code aster packages now are built only for python2.6
> - code aster is no longer linked to metis-edf but to scotchmetis; now
> metis-edf is only a suggested package
Just a "stupid" question.
aster is build with libmetis from scotch
If we use metis-edf there is no libmetis library but a libmetis-edf library
to avoid conflict when trying to install both metis-edf and scotchmetis.
So I had the feeling that we have to build either with scotchmetis or metis-edf.
If we choose scotchmetis, then we cannot use onmetis...
Do you have any idea if it will be (possible and) long to rewrite onmetis with scotch?
>
> About the last change, I made only a quick test and it seemed to work;
> anyway, a deepest testing should be needed: in the next days I'll run
> the test suite coming with code aster.
>
> The package has still some issues:
> - the file mpirun_template, needed to complete the mpi build by as_run
> is missing; I've opened a bug for code-aster-run[1], is someone taking
> care of this?
I could take care of this point. But I wish to wait for the new version of astk.
Upstream has made some changes to close the open bugs on code-aster.
> - some sed commands in debian/rules does not seem to work; the affected
> file is astout.export, used to run the test suite
As far as I remember they were introduced by Andre to limit the testsuite
to a given set of tests not including metis.
> - the package is still not lintian clean, since there are some .pyc
> files around
I think we can safely remove the .pyc
>
> What now? I'll continue to work on the packages... what should be fixed
> first to make the packages enter the distribution?
I think we have first to decide what to choose with metis-edf / scotchmetis?
Best
C.
>
> Bye
> Andrea
>
> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=627540
>
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