Benjamin Bentmann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> considering the recent fixes to checksums for stuff in central, I was
> wondering what's the overall state of (existing) checksums on central
> these days?
> 
> Assuming checksums are correct where present, this should put us in a
> good position to introduce a new checksum policy "fail-if-present" or
> just "strict" some day. The difference to the existing "fail" policy
> would be to only fail the build if at least one checksum file to verify
> is actually present. Making this policy the default for central would
> reduce the grief caused by Maven happily downloading HTTP status pages
> and trying to build class paths from HTML files...
> 
> 
> Benjamin
> 
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I just ran into this issue of download http error pages as artifacts last week,
so I would welcome a more strict default checksum policy.

For fixing the checksums currently in central, can we just run a script to
regenerate md5 and sha1 files?  This is what I did for the JBoss repo.

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