[petsc-dev] [petsc-maint #101466] Building external petsc packages without internet access

[Satish Balay]

On Thu, 5 Jan 2012, Barry Smith wrote:

> 
> On Jan 5, 2012, at 7:30 PM, Satish Balay wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 5 Jan 2012, Nystrom, William D wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > The undeleted _d_sowing.tar.gz is a new thing in petsc. Its more like
> > 'when this relavent code was changed we forgot to delete this
> > temporaty file'. If you retained the acutal package source dirs [and
> > not just the _d_foo.tar.gz] - then taring/untaring externalpackages
> > would have worked.
> 
> 
>     What the fuck are these files doing there? 
> 
> barry-smiths-macbook-pro:petsc-dev barrysmith$ ls externalpackages/
> MUMPS_4.10.0            _d_SuperLU.tar.gz       blacs-dev               metis-5.0.2             qblaslapack
> Prometheus-1.8.9        _d_SuperLU_DIST.tar.gz  c2html-0.9.4            ml-6.2                  scotch_5.1.11_esmumps
> Prometheus-1.8.9.tar.gz _d_f2cblaslapack.tar.gz f2cblaslapack-3.1.1.q   mpich2-1.4.1p1          sowing-1.1.16c
> SCALAPACK-1.7           _d_fftw.tar.gz          fftw-3.3.1-beta1        numdiff-5.2.1           txpetscgpu-0.0.2
> SuperLU_4.3             _d_metis.tar.gz         help                    openmpi-1.4.3           txpetscgpu-0.0.2.tar.gz
> SuperLU_DIST_3.0-p1     _d_parmetis.tar.gz      hypre-2.7.0b            parmetis-4.0.2          yaml-0.1.4
> _d_MUMPS.tar.gz         _d_sowing.tar.gz        junk                    pastix_release_3184
> 
>   Who added this moronic feature. Please fix it. After I finish crapping I flush the toilet. You don't?
> 

Looks like this happened when some of the shell code [for handling
.gz/bz2 files] was replaced by python code. I've reorganized this code
a bit more and fixed the temporary file deletion issue.

Satish