On Thu, 2014-10-30 at 14:27 +0000, Dave Love wrote: > The undocumented openmpi and mpich updates in RHEL6.6 have broken binary > compatibility and seem to be provoking general rebuilds of things in > EPEL. While that may be OK for things that are packaged in EPEL, it at > best doesn't help with our HPC users' locally-built programs or > local/copr-published rpms (especially if the rebuilds involve their own > ABIs incompatibilities, like scalapack currently in testing). > > It seems to me that the best approach, assuming Red Hat won't address > the issue, Ledford, (Cc'd), may be able to offer some help.
Peter- > is to supply compatibility packages in EPEL if that will > work. I haven't had a chance to try, but I'll probably have to make > something work eventually for openmpi, and presumably there are plenty > of people in a similar situation. The updates are blocked by the > dependencies of many installed packages here, but it will be > increasingly awkward with packages that can't be updated without > rebuilds. > > Has anyone tried that tack already, or is it clear it can't work for > some reason? > -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
