Bug#552429: [Pkg-openmpi-maintainers] Bug#552429: Bug#552429: MPI: fix alternatives mess with runtime environment

[Lucas Nussbaum]

On 11/11/09 at 22:34 +0100, Manuel Prinz wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 11.11.2009, 14:13 +0100 schrieb Lucas Nussbaum:
> > Let's fix the only really broken thing: the mpiexec/mpirun problem in
> > openmpi and mpich2. After that, we can downgrade this bug and discuss
> > the rest of it.
> 
> I uploaded a fixed package a few minutes ago that uses "mpirun" as
> master alternative and raised the priority to 40 for alternatives
> "mpirun" (openmpi-bin) and "mpi" (libopenmpi-dev).

Hi Manuel,

I'm still not convinced. For example, in preinst, you probably shouldn't
--remove-all mpirun.

Attached is a patch that works (apparently). I plan to do something very
similar in mpich2. Can you review/comment?
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