Issue building PETSc for offline build

[jessecarterMOOSE]

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I build MOOSE on our offline cluster using these instructions: https://mooseframework.inl.gov/getting_started/installation/offline_installation.html

Looks like PETSc is now configured to use kokkos. There are two kokkos packges to be downloaded: "kokkos" and "kokkos-kernels". These two packages are currently at the same version, so the tarballs that are downloaded have the same name and only one can be placed in the downloads directory for the petsc configure script to find, and so petsc can only find one or the other and quits. For now I just removed the --download-kokkos --download-kokkos-kernels from the petsc config file, but what is the long term solution for this?

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[GiudGiud]

@NamjaeChoi

[lindsayad]

@balay any thoughts on this?

[balay]

yeah - problem with github archive URLs :(

alternatives:

• --downlaod-kokkos=/path/to/tarball [so you can rename or have different location for these tarballs]
• download 'git repo [i.e clone] instead of tarballs and place them in packages-download-dir (make sure the folder is named with .git suffix)

[jessecarterMOOSE]

I made separate directories for the tarballs and ran like: scripts/update_and_rebuild_petsc.sh --skip-submodule-update --with-packages-download-dir=$PWD/../downloads --download-kokkos=$PWD/../downloads/kokkos/4.6.00.tar.gz --download-kokkos-kernels=$PWD/../downloads/kokkos-kernels/4.6.00.tar.gz. I get an error: No such file or directory: '/<truncated>/moose/petsc/arch-moose/externalpackages/kokkos/CMakeLists.txt' I looked in that directory and the tarball is there but didn't get uncompressed.

[balay]

Can you rm -rf <truncated>/moose/petsc/arch-moose and retry?

[jessecarterMOOSE]

yeah, same behavior

[balay]

Ah - there is some complexity here :(

--with-packages-download-dir is taking precedence over --download-kokkos=filename

Alternative:

• in downloads/ folder, untar kokkos/4.6.00.tar.gz - and rename this (untared) folder so that its at downloads/kokkos
• now use: --with-packages-download-dir=$PWD/../downloads --download-kokkos

[same with kokkos-kernels]

[balay]

Adding support to look for downloads/kokkos-4.6.00.tar.gz and then downloads/4.6.00.tar.gz at:

https://gitlab.com/petsc/petsc/-/merge_requests/8648

[NamjaeChoi]

Does this occur only in specific environments/conditions? How did containers build fine?

[balay]

This issue can occur when using --with-packages-download-dir for 'offline build'

So it shouldn't affect containers - that might have network access [and don't use --with-packages-download-dir ]