[petsc-users] error with wrong tarball in path/to/package

[Klaij, Christiaan]

Here is a small complaint about the error message "unable to
download" that is given when using
--download-PACKAGENAME=/PATH/TO/package.tar.gz with the wrong
tarball. For example, for my previous install, I was using
petsc-3.5.3 with:

--download-ml=/path/to/ml-6.2-win.tar.gz

Using the same file with 3.7.4 gives this error message

*******************************************************************************
         UNABLE to CONFIGURE with GIVEN OPTIONS    (see configure.log for details):
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Unable to download ML
Failed to download ML
*******************************************************************************

My guess from ml.py is that I should now download:

https://bitbucket.org/petsc/pkg-ml/get/v6.2-p4.tar.gz

and that you are somehow checking that the file specified in the
path matches this file (name, hash, ...)?

If so, "unable to download" is a bit confusing, I wasted some
time looking at the file system and the file:// protocol, and
annoyed the sysadmins... May I suggest to replace the message
with "wrong version" or something?

Chris


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