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[Harish Narayanan <harish.mlists@xxxxxxxxx>]

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.
> 
> --
> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>