Bug#1143178: mrbayes-mpi: Spawns instances of regular mb instead of running one parallel instance

Stepan <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.bugs.rc
Message-ID <178549895551.32307.12971324674619550636.reportbug__32491.5603314125$1785499042$gmane$org@cyfrifiadur>
Package: mrbayes-mpi
Version: 3.2.7a-7+b1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]

Dear Maintainer,

Running mb-mpi spawn instances of MrBayes instead of running the version
with parallel support. Compiling the parallel version from git source
produces a working version (https://github.com/NBISweden/MrBayes,
./configure --with-mpi=yes), but compiling the source debian package
doesn't.

A smaller problem is that the package is undocumented. The official
instructions say that the parallel version should be run with `mpirun`:
`mpirun -np 4 mb file.nex`. The debian package ships `mb-mpi` executable,
which is a bash wrapper that does that with environmental variable
MPI_OPTIONS passed to mpirun as options. But to figure it out, a user
needs to read the script.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 7.1.3+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages mrbayes-mpi depends on:
ii  libc6            2.42-17
ii  libhmsbeagle1v5  4.0.1+dfsg-5
ii  libreadline8t64  8.3-4
ii  mpi-default-bin  1.20
ii  ssh              1:10.4p1-2

mrbayes-mpi recommends no packages.

Versions of packages mrbayes-mpi suggests:
pn  mpi-default  <none>
ii  mrbayes-doc  3.2.7a-7

-- no debconf information
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.