Satish Balay <ba...@mcs.anl.gov> writes: > sure - hence my assertion that similar functionality could be > imlemented with tarballs [with the caveal of using unique urls]
The difference is that you have to cache the URL that was unpacked into the (global) externalpackages. Consider that the user could have built with a different PETSC_ARCH in between. I suppose this could be done by writing a hidden .downloadurl file into the package directory after unpacking.
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