In message <4c77985a.8090...@gmail.com>, Tim Ellison writes: > > On 24/Aug/2010 16:46, Sian January wrote: > > On 19 August 2010 03:29, Tim Ellison <t.p.elli...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 18/Aug/2010 08:51, Sian January wrote: > >>> I've just run the federated build from scratch and it all went > >>> smoothly except that I had to change the sourceforge mirror in all the > >>> depends.properties file. Looking at their website [1] "internap" > >>> doesn't seem to be listed at the moment so I think we may need to > >>> switch the scripts to use a different one. OVH worked for me > >>> yesterday unless anyone has another preference? > >> Almost by definition it is unlikely that any one mirror will satisfy > >> everyone. > >> > >> It should be possible to specify the chosen SourceForge mirror site used > >> at build time by defining the ant property -Dsf.base= though looking at > >> the depends.properties file I see not all URLs have been rewritten to > >> use that base property yet. > >> > >> I didn't see anything obvious for how to dynamically find your best > >> mirror for using SF. > > > > Looks like you can add ?use_mirror=autoselect to the end of the URL > > > > e.g. > > http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mx4j/mx4j-3.0.2.zip?use_mirror=autoselect > > > > Shall I update the build files to use this instead? > > Sounds good, but let's wait until after the milestone to avoid any > unforeseen problems that may appear with more testing.
I don't think we should release source artifacts that have obviously broken fetch-depends URLs. It would be confusing and inconvenient for those trying to use these artifacts. More importantly, none of my automated scripts for creating the linux/debian artifacts will work and doing them manually would be more error-prone and would require much more time than I have available at the moment. I don't mind if we don't fix all of the urls to use the mirror auto-selection but I do think we need to fix them to point at a working mirror. We already use dfn.dl.sourceforge.net for some downloads so I suggest just doing search/replace of internap with dfn on the problematic URLs. Please can I have permission to commit this change? Regards, -Mark.
