On 7/22/14 4:10 PM, "OmPrakash Muppirala" <bigosma...@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 4:01 PM, Justin Mclean <jus...@classsoftware.com>
>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> > That's why I asked about some sort of Jenkins job that could catch
>> changes.
>>
>> Probably not the best idea IMO. If Jenkins get it wrong we break the
>> installer for everyone. The downloads have never failed for Jenkins
>>before
>> right? :-)
>>
>>
>That is exactly my concern.  I don't think we should be in the business of
>verifying downloads from external servers.

Makes sense, but the fact is the current situation is that we are trying
to get Ant to fail gracefully (instead of just throwing an exception) when
it tries to unzip a bad download for which there is no MD5 to check
against, and the bits get updated periodically.  I'm open to other ideas.

-Alex

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