[petsc-users] petsc externalpackage directory

[Jed Brown]

Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> writes:
>    But in your previous email you seemed to advocate exactly that. You said 
>
> I'd rather cache
> the tarballs (with checksum) or use git repositories (which can be
> reliably cleaned) 
>
> isn't that adding "complicated features to facilitate" 

I'd rather cache tarballs than support people copying dirty build
directories around.  I don't particularly want either of these, but
caching tarballs and verifying them via a hash can at least be made
reliable.
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