On Tue, 23 Sep 1997, Martin Str|mberg wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I was reading about running software on clusters of machines. There's
> (at least) two different ways: PVM and MPI.
>
> Neither of them seems to be available as a debian package, but I have
> found a rpm package of MPI.
>
> Now my questions. Is alien supposed to install rpms, or to convert
> them to debs, which can be installed? If it's converting them to debs,
> or not and I have to repackage them, is there interest for a MPI
> package?
Alien can do all this:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ alien --help
Usage: alien [options ...] file
file Packge file to convert.
-d, --to-deb Generate a Debian deb package. (default)
Enables the following option:
--patch=<patch> Specify patch file to use instead of
automatically
looking for patch in /var/lib/alien.
-r, --to-rpm Generate a RedHat rpm package.
-t, --to-tgz Generate a Slackware tgz package.
-i, --install Install generated package.
-g, --generate Unpack, but do not generate a new package.
-s, --single Like --generate, but do not create .orig
directory.
-c, --scripts Include scripts in package.
-k, --keep-version Do not change version of generated package.
-h, --help Display this help message.
I think this includes all you want to do with it, and more. If you want to
release it as a package in the Debian distribution, you will have to edit
the control files, so you will have to use the '-g' option, edit the
control files and then put the whole thing together as a .deb package.
Regarding a MPI package (from what I understand from it): it would be nice
to play with it, but personally I won't need it.
Remco
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