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
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
>

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