Question about a alternative impacting on an other
 

Hello,

I have a question about alternatives.

There is what I currently have.
I have two important linear algebra librairies which are managed by
update-alternatives as primary:
* libblas.so.3gf
* liblapack.so.3gf

There are have various implementations. For now, we have a few of them:
* refblas for libblas.
* lapack for lapack.
* atlas which provides both.

Switching to Atlas will update both blas and lapack alternatives.

This will work.

However, if manually, I update liblapack to Atlas:
update-alternatives --config liblapack.so.3gf
Obviously, it won't update the libblas.so.3gf.

In theory, this should not be a problem... However, lapack from Atlas
uses some internal of libblas.so.
IE, if the user has libblas.so configured as refblas.so and liblapack.so
as Atlas. This will break (cf bug #598638).

Is there a way to have a kind of trigger in update-alternatives for this
case ?

Thanks
Sylvestre
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Question about a alternative impacting on an other
 

Hi,

On Thu, 24 Feb 2011, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
> However, if manually, I update liblapack to Atlas:
> update-alternatives --config liblapack.so.3gf
> Obviously, it won't update the libblas.so.3gf.
>
> In theory, this should not be a problem... However, lapack from Atlas
> uses some internal of libblas.so.
> IE, if the user has libblas.so configured as refblas.so and liblapack.so
> as Atlas. This will break (cf bug #598638).
>
> Is there a way to have a kind of trigger in update-alternatives for this
> case ?

Nope, there's nothing like that currently.

But we have a bug report requesting hooks for update-alternatives:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=521813

So maybe we will have something that would help at some point.

Cheers,
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