[petsc-dev] broken builds

[Jed Brown]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 14:34, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> All --download-package=reinstall can do is install the new one over
> the old one. This can can still break if the new one doesn't
> completely overwrite the old one.
>

Installing without keeping a log of exactly what was installed is totally
the wrong model. All package managers have a manifest and can remove
packages. PETSc should be able to do that too (eventually).
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