[petsc-users] petsc externalpackage directory

[Satish Balay]

On Tue, 2 Feb 2016, Jed Brown wrote:

> > I sure would like a common cache [for any build/arch/version] for both
> > tarballs and git repos - so network traffic can be cut down. [say in
> > ~/.local/petsc/cache].
> 
> We need checksums for this.  (We should always have checksums anyway.)

Manually updating checksums in externalpackage.py [for any
externapackage] - each time the tarball is updated - I think is error prone..

Is there a better mechanism to handle this?

Satish