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

[Barry Smith]

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?

   Barry


> 
> i.e retain externalpackages/sowing-1.1.16c/ [instead of retaining externalpackages/_d_sowing.tar.gz]
> 
> Satish
> 
> 
>> 
>> That does not seem to be working.  Is there an easy way to do something
>> similar to what I outlined above that would then allow petsc to be built with
>> my desired selection of already downloaded packages?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Dave
>> 
>> --
>> Dave Nystrom
>> LANL HPC-5
>> Phone: 505-667-7913
>> Email: wdn at lanl.gov
>> Smail: Mail Stop B272
>>       Group HPC-5
>>       Los Alamos National Laboratory
>>       Los Alamos, NM 87545
>> 
>> 
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