[petsc-dev] moab nightlybuild failure

[Satish Balay]

On Fri, 28 Jun 2013, Jed Brown wrote:

> Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> writes:
> 
> > This can be encoded into the url. [since we host the tarballs anyway]
> 
> That doesn't identify the unpacked copy, just the tarball itself.  Also,
> it's possibly-error-prone work to rename tarballs like that.

You don't really need shasums - just unique urls that the website serves.

And just as with git - were we have to query [or store] the current
local state [so as to compare with whats in moab.py or equivalent] -
we would have to store & query the current state of stuff obtained
from tarballs in a similar manner.

Satish