Hmm, yeah, some Googling confirms this, though there isn't any clear documentation about this.
Strangely, if I click on the link from your email the download works, but curl and wget somehow don't get redirected correctly... Nick On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 6:40 PM Shivaram Venkataraman < shiva...@eecs.berkeley.edu> wrote: > I think the lua one at > > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/infrastructure/site/trunk/content/dyn/closer.lua > has replaced the cgi one from before. Also it looks like the lua one > also supports `action=download` with a filename argument. So you could > just do something like > > wget > http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua?filename=hadoop/common/hadoop-2.7.1/hadoop-2.7.1.tar.gz&action=download > > Thanks > Shivaram > > On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 3:18 PM, Nicholas Chammas > <nicholas.cham...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Oh, sweet! For example: > > > > > http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/hadoop/common/hadoop-2.7.1/hadoop-2.7.1.tar.gz?asjson=1 > > > > Thanks for sharing that tip. Looks like you can also use as_json (vs. > > asjson). > > > > Nick > > > > > > On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 5:32 PM Shivaram Venkataraman > > <shiva...@eecs.berkeley.edu> wrote: > >> > >> On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 2:16 PM, Nicholas Chammas > >> <nicholas.cham...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > OK, I’ll focus on the Apache mirrors going forward. > >> > > >> > The problem with the Apache mirrors, if I am not mistaken, is that you > >> > cannot use a single URL that automatically redirects you to a working > >> > mirror > >> > to download Hadoop. You have to pick a specific mirror and pray it > >> > doesn’t > >> > disappear tomorrow. > >> > > >> > They don’t go away, especially http://mirror.ox.ac.uk , and in the us > >> > the > >> > apache.osuosl.org, osu being a where a lot of the ASF servers are > kept. > >> > > >> > So does Apache offer no way to query a URL and automatically get the > >> > closest > >> > working mirror? If I’m installing HDFS onto servers in various EC2 > >> > regions, > >> > the best mirror will vary depending on my location. > >> > > >> Not sure if this is officially documented somewhere but if you pass > >> '&asjson=1' you will get back a JSON which has a 'preferred' field set > >> to the closest mirror. > >> > >> Shivaram > >> > Nick > >> > > >> > > >> > On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 12:25 PM Shivaram Venkataraman > >> > <shiva...@eecs.berkeley.edu> wrote: > >> >> > >> >> I think that getting them from the ASF mirrors is a better strategy > in > >> >> general as it'll remove the overhead of keeping the S3 bucket up to > >> >> date. It works in the spark-ec2 case because we only support a > limited > >> >> number of Hadoop versions from the tool. FWIW I don't have write > >> >> access to the bucket and also haven't heard of any plans to support > >> >> newer versions in spark-ec2. > >> >> > >> >> Thanks > >> >> Shivaram > >> >> > >> >> On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 2:30 AM, Steve Loughran < > ste...@hortonworks.com> > >> >> wrote: > >> >> > > >> >> > On 1 Nov 2015, at 03:17, Nicholas Chammas > >> >> > <nicholas.cham...@gmail.com> > >> >> > wrote: > >> >> > > >> >> > https://s3.amazonaws.com/spark-related-packages/ > >> >> > > >> >> > spark-ec2 uses this bucket to download and install HDFS on > clusters. > >> >> > Is > >> >> > it > >> >> > owned by the Spark project or by the AMPLab? > >> >> > > >> >> > Anyway, it looks like the latest Hadoop install available on there > is > >> >> > Hadoop > >> >> > 2.4.0. > >> >> > > >> >> > Are there plans to add newer versions of Hadoop for use by > spark-ec2 > >> >> > and > >> >> > similar tools, or should we just be getting that stuff via an > Apache > >> >> > mirror? > >> >> > The latest version is 2.7.1, by the way. > >> >> > > >> >> > > >> >> > you should be grabbing the artifacts off the ASF and then verifying > >> >> > their > >> >> > SHA1 checksums as published on the ASF HTTPS web site > >> >> > > >> >> > > >> >> > The problem with the Apache mirrors, if I am not mistaken, is that > >> >> > you > >> >> > cannot use a single URL that automatically redirects you to a > working > >> >> > mirror > >> >> > to download Hadoop. You have to pick a specific mirror and pray it > >> >> > doesn't > >> >> > disappear tomorrow. > >> >> > > >> >> > > >> >> > They don't go away, especially http://mirror.ox.ac.uk , and in > the us > >> >> > the > >> >> > apache.osuosl.org, osu being a where a lot of the ASF servers are > >> >> > kept. > >> >> > > >> >> > full list with availability stats > >> >> > > >> >> > http://www.apache.org/mirrors/ > >> >> > > >> >> > >