IMO, there are two issues: 1) Adobe keeps updating the downloads and we get out of sync and there are failures until we get synced up 2) Folks using the installer seem to get bad downloads more often than using Ant/Browser.
For 1), I’ve been pondering having MD5 checker leave .md5 files on the CI server or somewhere that doesn’t require SVNPUBSUB and updating the installer scripts to fetch from there. Not sure if there the bandwidth costs will be significant or not. But then, if MD5 checker runs hourly (which it currently does) or even more frequently, we’ll only get out of sync for a little while. For 2), which I think was Mihai’s issue, we just get bad download too frequently. If I had more time, I’d write some other downloader in Flash/AIR using Socket to see if it works better. -Alex On 12/16/14, 8:22 AM, "Tom Chiverton" <t...@extravision.com> wrote: >The trouble being that sometimes the Apache mirrors are screwed, and the >only way to tell is to check the checksums (or explode when the files >are unpacked, if you get lucky). > >Tom > >On 16/12/14 16:10, Erik de Bruin wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Can't we make MD5 checking optional in the installer? Even downloads >> from Apache's website don't force you to check the MD5 sigs of a >> download, and it's causing all kinds of problems with downloads >> through the installer. >> >> EdB >> >> >> >
