May be a recent change... I know Ryan Campbell has been threatening to add
the code for that for some time


On 5 November 2013 16:28, Kevin Fleming (BLOOMBERG/ 731 LEXIN) <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Are you sure about that? While looking into this problem I reviewed the
> code in UpdateSite.java and it most certainly opens the 'update center' URL
> itself and downloads the content when it is time to do so.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> At: Nov 5 2013 11:11:53
>
> Jenkins does not contact the update center directly... it hijack's your
> browser... which is insane if you ask me... but that's the way it works...
> the browser hijack would be a fine fallback... but the default, eh no thanks
>
>
> On 5 November 2013 16:07, Kevin Fleming (BLOOMBERG/ 731 LEXIN) <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I updated my machine to 1.538 this morning (using the Ubuntu package),
>> and found that the Update Center had not been contacted for over a month;
>> as a result, there were no plugin updates available to be installed.
>>
>> I tried various things to get Jenkins to download the latest data from
>> the update center (the 'Check Now' button in the Advanced tab of the Manage
>> Plugins page, removing updates/default.json), but I was never able to get
>> Jenkins to download the latest JSON file. I even watched with tcpdump, and
>> saw that Jenkins never issued any outbound HTTP request to the Update
>> Center.
>>
>> I then downloaded the JSON file manually (using a shell on the same
>> machine) and trimmed it so that Jenkins would be able to use it. I clicked
>> 'Reload Configuration From Disk' and then the Manage Plugins page showed
>> all the available plugin updates. It is now download plugins and installing
>> them, which means it *can* contact the Update Center.
>>
>> Any ideas what might have been happening here?
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