[CentOS] compat-openmpi issues after upgrade to CentOS 6.5

Mon Dec 9 15:11:04 UTC 2013
Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>

On 12/09/2013 08:21 AM, Tor Halsan wrote:
> Just wondering if anyone can shed some light into an issue we are having 
> with compat-openmpi after upgrading CentOS to version 6.5
>
> Some of our cluster applications are dependent on an older version of 
> OpenMPI, so we are using compat-openmpi. Up to CentOS 6.4 this was 
> version 1.4.3:
>
> % /usr/lib64/compat-openmpi/bin/mpirun -V
> mpirun (Open MPI) 1.4.3
>
> but after the upgrade to CentOS 6.5 it suddenly reports version 1.5.3:
> % /usr/lib64/compat-openmpi/bin/mpirun -V
> mpirun (Open MPI) 1.5.3
>
> But rpm/yum still reports that version 1.4.3 is installed:
>
> % rpm -qv compat-openmpi
> compat-openmpi-1.4.3-1.1.el6.x86_64
>
> Is this deliberate, or has someone erred?
>
> - Tor
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The changelog contains this:

compat-openmpi-1.4.3-1.1.el6.x86_64 [2.6 MiB]     Changelog by Jay
Fenlason (2013-08-14):

* Also include 1.5.3 libraries so users of RHEL-6.5+ can run
  programs compiled on RHEL-6.2-
  Resolves: rhbz876315


So, I would say that, yes, it is on purpose.

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