[Fedora-packaging] Question about packaging of MPICH2

[Susi Lehtola]

On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 22:29:23 +0200
Andrew Prokhorenkov <andrew.prokhorenkov at gmail.com> wrote:
> I get confused with the environment modules with MPICH2 package.
> 
> It has two identical modules files:
> /etc/modulefiles/mpich2-i386
> /etc/modulefiles/mpi/mpich2-i386
> 
> If they are identical, why not to make one of them a symlink? Does
> even both files needed?
> 
> For example, in openmpi there is only one file:
> /etc/modulefiles/mpi/openmpi-i386

Looks like this is a bug in the mpich2 package.

The MPI packaging guidelines clearly state that the first module file
above shouldn't be present.
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Susi Lehtola
Fedora Project Contributor
jussilehtola at fedoraproject.org