On 01/Sep/2010 11:53, Mark Hindess wrote: > In message <4c77985a.8090...@gmail.com>, Tim Ellison writes: >> On 24/Aug/2010 16:46, Sian January wrote: >>> On 19 August 2010 03:29, Tim Ellison <t.p.elli...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> On 18/Aug/2010 08:51, Sian January wrote: >>>>> I've just run the federated build from scratch and it all went >>>>> smoothly except that I had to change the sourceforge mirror in all the >>>>> depends.properties file. Looking at their website [1] "internap" >>>>> doesn't seem to be listed at the moment so I think we may need to >>>>> switch the scripts to use a different one. OVH worked for me >>>>> yesterday unless anyone has another preference? >>>> Almost by definition it is unlikely that any one mirror will satisfy >>>> everyone. >>>> >>>> It should be possible to specify the chosen SourceForge mirror site used >>>> at build time by defining the ant property -Dsf.base= though looking at >>>> the depends.properties file I see not all URLs have been rewritten to >>>> use that base property yet. >>>> >>>> I didn't see anything obvious for how to dynamically find your best >>>> mirror for using SF. >>> Looks like you can add ?use_mirror=autoselect to the end of the URL >>> >>> e.g. >>> http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mx4j/mx4j-3.0.2.zip?use_mirror=autoselect >>> >>> Shall I update the build files to use this instead? >> Sounds good, but let's wait until after the milestone to avoid any >> unforeseen problems that may appear with more testing. > > I don't think we should release source artifacts that have obviously > broken fetch-depends URLs. It would be confusing and inconvenient for > those trying to use these artifacts. More importantly, none of my > automated scripts for creating the linux/debian artifacts will work and > doing them manually would be more error-prone and would require much > more time than I have available at the moment. > > I don't mind if we don't fix all of the urls to use the mirror > auto-selection but I do think we need to fix them to point at a working > mirror. > > We already use dfn.dl.sourceforge.net for some downloads so I suggest > just doing search/replace of internap with dfn on the problematic URLs. > Please can I have permission to commit this change?
I thought it was a temporary outage that I've seen before, but it's been a while and the download from internap does seem to have disappeared. I'm +1 to switching to another mirror for now, and working with the autoselect mechanism after the milestone. Regards, Tim
