Bug#731211: aster: new upstream release, work in progress

[Denis Laxalde]

Hi,

Andrea Palazzi a écrit :
> - I'd really prefer to remove the libmetis dependency and keep it in
> main and not in contrib; after all libmetis is not absolutely required (
> the patch no_metis_default.diff was there to change the default
> renumerator from metis to md ) , and I think that packages in contrib
> are out of the auto-builder circuit. Moreover we all prefer 100% free
> software ;-)

I agree that this Aster in Debian would be better with the non-free 
dependency on libmetis. However, I actually had troubles during build 
with scotch version of metis. I will look into this further, though.

> - I would really like to have both the serial and mpi version available:
> the serial version is faster if you're not running a cluster

I'm not opposed to having both versions but, again, I had trouble 
building the non-mpi flavor. So I actually chose the simplest path to 
having a working version of code-aster in Debian.

> - then, if you have two (or more) versions, you'll need a script to
> update the information in /etc/codeaster/aster ; note that this file is
> partly a status file - that is, its content represents some kind of
> status, in our case the available versions: this is what the
> postinst/postrm scripts were supposed to do

Not sure how soon we'll have two (or more) versions of code-aster.

> - not sure if it's automatically done somewhere, but on 64 bit
> architectures you'll have to pass -D_MED_USE_SHORT_INT to the compiler
> to be able to open med files

This is done automatically, there's a call to 'check_sizeof_med_int' at 
configure step.

> PS: the package fails to build on my system with git-buildpackage - it
> seems it can't find some metis file, but I have installed libmetis-dev.
> It also fails with git-buildpackage/cowbuilder because libmetis is in
> non-free... how do you build the package?

Either using debian/rules binary or dpkg-buildpackage or sbuild. It 
builds fine on Sid and Wheezy, as well as in sbuild's chroots.
I'm not surprised git-buildpackage does not work as is, since I didn't 
figure out yet what the git repository layout should be.

Thank you for your comments !

Regards.

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Denis Laxalde
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