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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, but my assertion is that cost is smaller than needing to branch
the entire source tree.

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Anders


On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 09:15:56AM +0200, Harish Narayanan wrote:
> 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.
> >>>
> >>
>