[Bug 171993] Review Request: mpich2 - An implementation of MPI

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Summary: Review Request: mpich2 -  An implementation of MPI


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=171993


ed at eh3.com changed:

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             Status|NEW                         |ASSIGNED
         AssignedTo|gdk at redhat.com              |ed at eh3.com
OtherBugsDependingO|163776                      |163778
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------- Additional Comments From ed at eh3.com  2005-11-03 20:36 EST -------
Hi Deji, I'm afraid this package needs a bit more work and here are the 
specific comments:

needswork:
 - I'm afraid I don't understand the with_jvm %define -- what 
     does it accomplish?
 - rpmlint reports:
   - a lot of ignorable "devel-file-in-non-devel-package" 
       warnings
   - more ignorable "non-executable-script" and 
       "non-conffile-in-etc" warnings/errors related to conf
       files that are in bash syntax and have a shebang
   - are the following files really needed [what purpose
       do they serve?] and perhaps can be deleted:
        W: mpich2 unstripped-binary-or-object 
            /usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/clog2_print.debug
        E: mpich2 statically-linked-binary 
            /usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/clog2_print.debug
        W: mpich2 unstripped-binary-or-object  
            /usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/mpdroot.debug
        E: mpich2 statically-linked-binary  
            /usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/mpdroot.debug
        W: mpich2 unstripped-binary-or-object  
            /usr/lib/debug/usr/share/mpich2/examples/cpi.debug
        E: mpich2 statically-linked-binary  
            /usr/lib/debug/usr/share/mpich2/examples/cpi.debug
   - what is this error?  Can we simply delete this file? :
        E: mpich2 arch-dependent-file-in-usr-share 
            /usr/share/mpich2/examples/cpi
 - The files in, for instance, /usr/include/* "pollute" the 
     standard name-space and should probably be placed in 
     something like /usr/include/mpich2/* or 
     /usr/lib/mpich2/include/* since they already conflict 
     with the "lam" package in Core.  Please note that this 
     is a fairly critical bug since Extras packages should not 
     (AFAIK) conflict with any Core packages.

good:
 + source matches upstream
 + license looks OK and correctly included
 + specfile is clean and readable
 
So I think, at a min, a number of the rpmlint errors should be corrected 
and a file layout should be chosen that allows mpich2 to be installed 
concurrently (no conflicts) with the lam package already in Core.

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