Perhaps include .bzr in the tarball? -j.
On 22 October 2012 12:49, Harish Narayanan <[email protected]> wrote: > I see, and agree > > Then, apart from timing, I am only hesitant for one more reason: I > occasionally maintain local changes to the different source trees for > sillyness that is specific to my machine. Using bzr allows me to not > blow them away on upgrade, but refetching tarballs will do so. > > Harish > > On 10/22/12 9:47 AM, Anders Logg wrote: >> It's just the general feeling I get when experimenting with a new >> setup for my system (and therefore running Dorsal repeatedly for >> testing). External packages are built fast, but simple stuff like FFC >> takes a really long time just becase the bzr download is so slow. >> >> Here are some numbers for DOLFIN: >> >> $ time wget >> http://fenicsproject.org/pub/software/dolfin/dolfin-snapshot.tar.gz >> real 0m23.555s >> >> $ time bzr branch lp:dolfin >> real 5m7.337s >> >> $ cd dolfin; time bzr pull >> real 0m7.107s >> >> So when doing a fresh install, the difference is 23s for tarball vs >> 5min for bzr. >> >> And for updated install, the difference is 23s for tarball vs 7s for >> bzr, in the best case (longer for bzr if something actually changed). >> >> The extra 16s for tarball update is not very noticeable, but the extra >> 5 min for fresh install with bzr is very noticeable. >> >> -- >> Anders >> >> >> On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 09:21:57AM +0200, Harish Narayanan wrote: >>> Hmm. I am not sure. I guess that depends on how often one updates their >>> sources for unstable builds on dorsal. >>> >>> Harish >>> >>> On 10/22/12 9:20 AM, Anders Logg wrote: >>>> Yes, but my assertion is that cost is smaller than needing to branch >>>> the entire source tree. >>>> >>>>> I mean the user pulling it via dorsal from fpo. They then have to get >>>>> the entire tarball each time, right? (As opposed to tiny deltas via bzr). >>>>> >>>>> Harish >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On 10/22/12 9:14 AM, Anders Logg wrote: >>>>>> How do you mean? The snapshot would be updated every 5 min by a >>>>>> cronjob on fenicsproject.org. >>>>>> >>>>>>> And how would one update the snapshot, which I am assuming is a tarball >>>>>>> created by bzr archive (or whatever the export command is)? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Harish >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On 10/22/12 9:09 AM, Anders Logg wrote: >>>>>>>> Would it be a good idea to store snapshots of the FEniCS packages on >>>>>>>> the server for faster installation with Dorsal? The bzr cloning takes >>>>>>>> forever. We could have a cronjob running on the server for pulling and >>>>>>>> updating the snapshots every say 5 min. We are already pulling for the >>>>>>>> buildbots. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>> >>> > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dorsal > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dorsal > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dorsal Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dorsal More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
