[petsc-dev] --download-ptscotch

[Satish Balay]

Looks like the following is a way to timeout urllib.urlretrieve()

diff --git a/config/BuildSystem/retrieval.py b/config/BuildSystem/retrieval.py
index 1875a07..fb5059d 100644
--- a/config/BuildSystem/retrieval.py
+++ b/config/BuildSystem/retrieval.py
@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ import os
 import urllib
 import urlparse
 import config.base
+import socket
+socket.setdefaulttimeout(30)
+
 # Fix parsing for nonstandard schemes
 urlparse.uses_netloc.extend(['bk', 'ssh', 'svn'])
 

However - it appears to be a global timeout [for all sockets created from python?] Should we use this?

Satish


On Thu, 25 Jun 2015, Satish Balay wrote:

> We use:
> 
>     self.download     = ['http://gforge.inria.fr/frs/download.php/file/34099/scotch_6.0.3.tar.gz',
>                          'http://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/petsc/externalpackages/scotch_6.0.3.tar.gz']
> 
> 
> So - if the first url fails - configure should use the second one.
> 
> However sometimes configure hangs. I see configure is hanging here -
> but weget is not. So perhaps a bug in python urllib?
> 
> [have to check more..]
> 
> Satish
> 
> 
> On Thu, 25 Jun 2015, Barry Smith wrote:
> 
> > 
> >    Bug report should be sent to the Inria folks.
> >   
> >    Barry
> > 
> > I wonder how many French Francs they waste maintaining their own source forge instead of using github for free.
> > 
> > 
> > > On Jun 25, 2015, at 9:55 AM, Stefano Zampini <stefano.zampini at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > It seems that —download-ptscotch is broken right now, since the code repository on gforge.inria.fr is not accessible anymore as an anonymous user.
> > > 
> > > Stefano
> > 
> > 
>