On 06/06/2013 10:41 AM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: > > Hi Adam, > > Although I am not a user of the PPA nor of pre-packaged downloads for KiCad, > I would > consider this offer to be a *very generous* one from you. I think my fellow > KiCad users > would benefit from it. > > > Is there any way we can have a substitute plan, on the shelf, should you ever > lose > interest in providing this service? Maybe a copy of some scripts or current > PPA work, > whatever would make the task easiest? > > > > On the problem at hand, I download the tar.bz2 file using wget at the command > line, and > the sourceforge download started out at only 8 K/sec and went up from there. > It took me > 14 minutes plus to do the download. The computed hash in the PPA logs is > > d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e > > and I find that this is the same you get on an empty file: > > $ touch empty.file > $ md5sum empty.file > > d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e > > > So the launchpad site may actually be blocking the download with a firewall > rule or such. > A TIMEOUT setting change is barely worth the try. > > > As an experiment, I pushed the tar.bz2 file into its own bzr repo and pushed > that to kicad > project. (Please do not tell launchpad folks.) This exposes then an http > URL at > > > http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~kicad-testing-committers/kicad/boost/download/head:/boost_1_53_0.tar.bz2-20130606145758-00fag66fz00gstq5-1/boost_1_53_0.tar.bz2 > > > I then did wget against that URL, suddenly my rural internet connection > became the > bottleneck, as you would expect. So launchpad did well. The download only > took 6 plus > minutes. > > > So some choices are available to you Adam. As I said below, if you stuff the > tar.bz2 file > into the .downloads-by-cmake dir in advance of the first build, the download > step will be > skipped. We can also use the launchpad URL, but that seems unnatural to me, > and self > defeating relative to the original idea of ease of upgrading boost. > > > To fix the PPA using the services there, rather than your build cluster, it > seems > pre-loading the boost tar.bz2 file is necessary, because we/I suspect a > firewall rule > blocking the download.
And we'd either have to supply CMake 2.8.4 for Lucid build, or relax that requirement in the topmost CMakeLists.txt down to 2.8.0. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
