On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 3:09 AM, Satish Balay <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, 29 Oct 2013, Jed Brown wrote:
>
> > >    So how about just moving externalpackages into $PETSC_ARCH and
> > >    don’t build some elaborate scheme that reuses tar balls for a tiny
> > >    number of people.  In other words a clean truly means clean and
> > >    gets new tar balls.
> >
> > That sounds good to me.
>
> I've attempted to move externalpackages into PETSC_ARCH.
> But I need to figureout how to do this for blaslapack.py & mpi.py - as they
> don't use the regular package.py stuff..
>
> Matt - any ideas? The commits I have are:
>

Those are good. I think we bite the bullet and finally convert those two to
use
package.py. It will suck for a while.

   Matt


>
> https://bitbucket.org/petsc/petsc/commits/6169ffbf03ec9c2d2c66d78de2f75db3c481fc23?at=master
>
> https://bitbucket.org/petsc/petsc/commits/315689470ef34fb0770466bd7f1fae35d41712f8?at=master
>
> BTW: would we still keep --with-externalpackages-dir option in this scheme?
>
> thanks,
> Satish
>



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