[petsc-dev] --download-ptscotch

[Satish Balay]

Or perhaps the following [set timeout before urlretrieve - and reset after]

Satish

-----
$ git diff |cat
diff --git a/config/BuildSystem/retrieval.py b/config/BuildSystem/retrieval.py
index 1875a07..0b1545e 100644
--- a/config/BuildSystem/retrieval.py
+++ b/config/BuildSystem/retrieval.py
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ import os
 import urllib
 import urlparse
 import config.base
+import socket
+
 # Fix parsing for nonstandard schemes
 urlparse.uses_netloc.extend(['bk', 'ssh', 'svn'])
 
@@ -56,8 +58,12 @@ class Retriever(logger.Logger):
       os.unlink(localFile)
 
     try:
+      sav_timeout = socket.getdefaulttimeout()
+      socket.setdefaulttimeout(30)
       urllib.urlretrieve(url, localFile)
+      socket.setdefaulttimeout(sav_timeout)
     except Exception, e:
+      socket.setdefaulttimeout(sav_timeout)
       failureMessage = '''\
 Unable to download package %s from: %s
 * If URL specified manually - perhaps there is a typo?


On Thu, 25 Jun 2015, Satish Balay wrote:

> 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
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
>