Thank you for clarifying, Tuukka. I am (along with many others, I'm sure) delighted to hear about the upcoming ability to officially select mirrors, and look forward to an improved download experience going forward. MirrorBrain does not always pick the best source. [1]
Best of luck with setting up an alternative file server. Regards, Sze-Howe [1] https://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2018-April/032461.html On Wed, 20 Jan 2021 at 18:35, Tuukka Turunen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > To explain a bit why I was mistaken about the online in the mail I sent last > night. We have a development feature that allows selecting the mirror > manually. I thought it could be used, but it turned out we had not released > that version of the installer. Would have been handy, but since it is not > already released, the best approach is to re-create the master. We are doing > that now. We will also have this feature in the installer released (after we > can again make releases), because it is sometimes handy to tell explicitly > what server to download from. > > > > Yours, > > > > Tuukka > > > > From: Development <[email protected]> > Date: Wednesday, 20. January 2021 at 8.06 > To: Sze Howe Koh <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>, > [email protected] <[email protected]>, Interests Qt > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Development] [Releasing] [Interest] download.qt.io is down > > Hi, > > > > Yes, this is correct. > > > > Yours, > > > > Tuukka > > > > From: Sze Howe Koh <[email protected]> > Date: Wednesday, 20. January 2021 at 0.10 > To: Tuukka Turunen <[email protected]> > Cc: Mark Long <[email protected]>, [email protected] > <[email protected]>, Interests Qt <[email protected]>, > [email protected] <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Releasing] [Interest] download.qt.io is down > > On Wed, 20 Jan 2021 at 04:10, Tuukka Turunen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > There are multiple mirrors, try for example: > > > > > > > > https://qt-mirror.dannhauer.de/ > > > > https://www.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/download.qt-project.org/ > > > > https://ftp.fau.de/qtproject/ > > > > > > > > ...or just use the online installer, which picks mirrors automatically. > > > > Yours, > > > > Tuukka > > Hi Tuuka, > > The Online installer downloads files in 2 phases: > > 1. Retrieve metadata from download.qt.io > 2. Retrieve actual binaries from the auto-selected mirror > > Since Step #1 is blocked, it can't proceed to Step #2. > > > Regards, > Sze-Howe _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development
