DNF vs YUM, $pkg, $pkg-mpi, $pkg-openmpi having same provides

[Susi Lehtola]

On 06/12/2015 06:34 AM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> On 06/11/2015 10:01 AM, Sandro Mani wrote:
>> So, whose fault is this? Packaging of dnf? Nothing relevant for this
>> caught my eye skimming through the packaging guidelines.
>>
>> And related: trying to install some $pkg-openmpi package, I don't
>> generally see packages enforcing that the -openmpi version of some
>> dependency library is installed as opposed to just the regular libs
>> package. Should such requires need to be stated explicitly?
>
> MPI packages need to filter out the provides from the MPI versions and
> explicitly add needed requires on the specific MPI flavors of packages
> needed.  This probably needs to be added to the MPI guidelines.

Yes, a mention of filtering should be added. Basically, this is already 
discussed in

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:AutoProvidesAndRequiresFiltering
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Susi Lehtola
Fedora Project Contributor
jussilehtola at fedoraproject.org