[petsc-dev] Get a list of package download URL

[Satish Balay]

Check --with-packages-download-dir option.

This is a 2 step process. For ex - the first step:

>>>
balay at sb /home/balay/petsc (master=)
$ ./configure --with-packages-download-dir=$HOME/tmp --download-metis --download-parmetis
===============================================================================
             Configuring PETSc to compile on your system                       
===============================================================================
Download the following packages to /home/balay/tmp 

metis ['git://https://bitbucket.org/petsc/pkg-metis.git', 'https://bitbucket.org/petsc/pkg-metis/get/v5.1.0-p10.tar.gz']
parmetis ['git://https://bitbucket.org/petsc/pkg-parmetis.git', 'https://bitbucket.org/petsc/pkg-parmetis/get/v4.0.3-p6.tar.gz']

Then run the script again
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Satish

On Wed, 18 Nov 2020, Blaise A Bourdin wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am working with a company whose cluster is an a private network without connectivity to the outside world. Our process to install petsc is to manually extract the packages URL from config/BuildSystem/packages/ and download the appropriate files.
> Another approach is to run configure and let it fail when it cannot download a package, note the download URL, and manually download it from a separate machine.
> 
> Is there a quicker way to get the URL of all packages that will be downloaded without running through the whole configure process? 
> 
> Assuming that I know the list of package that I will want, is there a programmatic way to figure out what os the download URL for say Metis or sowing?
> 
> Regards,
> Blaise
> 
>   
>