On Mar 22, 2011, at 11:22 AM, Satish Balay wrote:

> If --download-package doesn't work - it prints the URL of the package.
> 
> If we need to document this further - 'configure --help' should print
> the defulat URLs for packages.

   Yes it should print it!  The problem is that --help also prints a ton of 
stuff that gets confusing and in the way of important things. Better way to 
organize the output?

  Barry
 

> Satish
> 
> On Tue, 22 Mar 2011, Barry Smith wrote:
> 
>> 
>>  We need to make the specific tar file version more transparent: 
>> 
>>  When the tarball is generated should a nice list of the tarballs for each 
>> external packages be automatically generated and put somehow in the 
>> document? Should we have a tool that extracts that information from the 
>> appropriate XXX.py upon request? How to tell people about this tool? If we 
>> have to tell them about the tool we might as just well tell them to look in 
>> the appropriate config/PETSc/packages/XXXX.py or 
>> config/BuildSystem/config/packagesXXX.py directly?
>> 
>>   Barry
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Mar 22, 2011, at 11:02 AM, Satish Balay wrote:
>> 
>>> Which version of PETSc are you using? The URL for hypre is listed in
>>> config/PETSc/packages/hypre.py - for any given version of petsc.
>>> 
>>> for petsc-3.1 its: 
>>> http://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/petsc/externalpackages/hypre-2.6.0b.tar.gz
>>> 
>>> Satish
>>> 
>>> On Tue, 22 Mar 2011, Verena Kuhlemann wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hello,
>>>> 
>>>> I was wondering which version of HYPRE one should use with Petsc. I need to
>>>> download it before
>>>> the configuration of Petsc as --download-hypre=1 is not working for me.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Verena
>>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> 
> 

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