Bug#666071: mpich2: In this version of mpich2, the mpd daemon (and other utilities) are missing.

[Samuel Thibault]

severity 666071 important
thanks

Hello,

This bug is preventing mpich2 from migrating to testing, although it
just looks like a documentation bug to me, thus downgrading.

Pavan Balaji, le Wed 28 Mar 2012 07:52:05 -0500, a écrit :
> 
> On 03/28/2012 07:14 AM, alliot wrote:
> >The mpd (and mpdboot) programs are no longer in the mpich2 package, and
> >there is no dependancy (and no easy way) to know where they have gone,
> >making mpich2 unusable.
> 
> mpd is now deprecated.  The default process manager in mpich2-1.4.x is
> hydra.  mpiexec -help should give you the usage instructions.  Or you can
> find them here.
> 
> http://wiki.mcs.anl.gov/mpich2/index.php/Using_the_Hydra_Process_Manager

I'd say that it should be in the NEWS file, so that people know about
the change.

Samuel