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[Harish Narayanan <harish.mlists@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 8/22/10 2:38 PM, Anders Logg wrote:
> How about storing tarballs of 3rd party packages (like PETSc etc) at
> 
>   http://www.fenics.org/pub/software/contrib ?
> 
> The SLEPc web site is currently down which prevents testing. This has
> happened before on many occasions.
> 
> We would just need to copy the tarballs to the web pages and change
> the addresses in the package files.

This is necessary and has been the case in the past. Another option
which I have used is to point to more stable mirrors such as the following:

http://distfiles.macports.org/slepc/

(This was changed back during this recent 3.1 move, as 3.1 has not
arrived on the above mirror.)

Harish