Neil Bothwick <neil <at> digimed.co.uk> writes:
> > > I doubt dpkg and rpm aren't going to be much use to you, unless you > > > really want to run two package managers. Besides, both are not > > > especially useful with the front ends apt* and yum. > > > > I'd just use those to unpackage and maybe preprocess some of the codes. > > > > Agreed. I do not want a full blown deb or rpm package manager just > > a way to install and evaluate some of those codes before beginning a > > more arduous and comprehensive task. > > In that case you ware deb2targz or rpm2targz to convert the package to a > tarball. then you can unpack it and inspect the contents. Agreed. Problem is my workflows it to test as is before looking that the codes. If they do not do what they are suppose to (for clustering or HPC) then why look under the hood.... Lots of pigs in clustering and HPC, the stuff we use to run (and called it distributed or parallel) decades ago was much faster..... Putting bloat_ware on top of a cluster is just plain stupid and that's what most are doing.... It negates the entire point of distributed/hpc, imho. thx, James
