On Jul 22, 2006, at 7:52 PM, Jack Howarth wrote: > Dave, > I guess that implies that there will be a problem > if the following steps occur... > > 1) the old lammpi is already installed > 2) openmpi-dev is then installed overwriting the files in the old > lammpi > 3) the old lammpi is then upggraded to the new lammpi. > > When dpkg deinstalls the old lammpi it will remove those > conflicting files that belong to openmpi in the process, no?
No. dpkg keeps track of which files 'belong' to which package, and when it replaces some of the files, it reassigns their ownership to openmpi-dev. > We have one other issue at play with regard to the decision whether > to create a lammpi2 package. The stable lammpi is built with g77 > whereas lammpi is using gfortran (so that it can build on macintel). > This means that even with symlinks, the shared libs of lammpi will > be no good if the MPI code built that uses it involves fortran code. I guess this only applies to liblamf77mpi.dylib? You are saying that it is definitely binary incompatible with the new version? -- Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
