[Mageia-dev] updating torque?

Fri Aug 24 22:00:31 CEST 2012

EatDirt skrev 23.8.2012 19:14:
+> Hi,
+> torque package is not maintained by anyone. The version we have on
+> mageia is 2.5.3 which is *very* old. Torque comes in various branches,
+> the version 2 is now at 2.5.12 wheras the last version is 4.1.0
+>
+>
+> The spec file is an old monster from mandriva that would need cleaning.
+> Some scripts have been extracted from the very old source files, and
+> then edited by hand, moved to SOURCES/ and are still in use to overwrite
+> the new ones coming with the new version. If by chance this is still
+> working, it won't at some point :)
+>
+> I am actually using torque at work (but from centos...), so I can give
+> it a try; unless someone has a peculiar interest in doing it instead.
+>
+> My plan is:
+>
+> 1) Upgrade 2.5.3 -> 2.5.12 + drop old scripts + clean specfile
+>
+> 2) Import torque 4.1.0 and create torque2 branch
+>
+> 3) Eventually drop torque2 branch at some point
+>
+>
+> Please let me know if you disagree or have any comments! Any suggestions
+> welcome.
+>
+
+the obvious question....
+
+Do we really need 2 branches of torque ?
+
+Why not simply say bye-bye to 2.* series ?
+
+--
+Thomas
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