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Re: Snapshots of FEniCS packages

 

On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 9:17 AM, Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 09:14:21AM +0200, Johannes Ring wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 9:09 AM, Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx> 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.
>>
>> We already have that:
>>
>> http://fenicsproject.org/pub/software/dolfin/dolfin-snapshot.tar.gz
>> http://fenicsproject.org/pub/software/ferari/ferari-snapshot.tar.gz
>> http://fenicsproject.org/pub/software/ffc/ffc-snapshot.tar.gz
>> http://fenicsproject.org/pub/software/fiat/fiat-snapshot.tar.gz
>> http://fenicsproject.org/pub/software/instant/instant-snapshot.tar.gz
>> http://fenicsproject.org/pub/software/syfi/syfi-snapshot.tar.gz
>> http://fenicsproject.org/pub/software/ufc/ufc-snapshot.tar.gz
>> http://fenicsproject.org/pub/software/ufl/ufl-snapshot.tar.gz
>
> Great. I assumed those directories were no longer alive since they
> mostly have old versions.
>
> Should we make sure to fill up those directories with all the missing
> tarballs of releases? It looks weird to have dolfin-0.9.4 and then the
> snapshot. It makes a user think that snapshot is not relevant even if
> the timestamp is new.

Yes, I can add the missing tarballs.

> Would it be a problem to use those snapshots from Dorsal?

Nothing else than whats Harish pointed out.

Johannes


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