On Dec 16, 2014 8:43 AM, "Alex Harui" <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > > 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.
+1 We could link directly to the generated md5 file on the jenkins job. Thanks, Om > > 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 > >> > >> > >> > > >
