[Pkg-gridengine-devel] Going for 8.1.3

[Dave Love]

Laszlo Kajan <lkajan at rostlab.org> writes:

> My feeling is that at this point, as you are close to the release of
> SofGE 8.1.3, perhaps you could coordinate the 8.1.3-related
> effort. You fix problems upstream, and little patching goes to the
> Debianization anyway, so I guess the best we can help you now is by
> doing builds and tests and letting you know how those go.

Yes.  Test builds on all the Debian architectures would be useful for
one thing.  I'm not convinced by the current scheme with a wrapper
script, and I don't know how that works in practice.  Obviously I
haven't tested running the packaged version with the missing wrapper...

I'm not at all sure the current conflicts and replaces tags are right,
and the setup with alternatives for DRMAA and names clashes with Torque,
for instance.

There seem to be fundamental issues with a distributed system like this
in Debian, apart from policy making it rather difficult, for instance,
to run shared-everything clusters.  I can't see a way to make automatic
updates work sensibly.