On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 7:43 PM, Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote:
> On 7/24/2016 10:24 AM, Damjan Jovanovic wrote: > ... > >> So how do we download files now? >> >> Java. Java supports https:// out of the box, is very portable between >> operating systems and CPUs, uses its own root CA certificates, is already >> used on all the buildbots, and is documented as being a mandatory build >> dependency (even though it doesn't seem that way in ./configure). A simple >> class main/solenv/javadownloader/AOOJavaDownloader.java gets compiled into >> main/solenv/<platform>/class/AOOJavaDownloader.class by the ./bootstrap >> script, and then called from Perl's main/solenv/bin/ >> download_external_dependencies.pl and >> main/solenv/bin/modules/ExtensionsLst.pm using system(), in place of >> LWP::UserAgent. Internally, it uses java.net.URLConnection for http/https >> support, deals with HTTP redirection, also verifying MD5 and SHA1 hashes >> like the Perl DownloadFile() function it replaces. >> >> The way it's been set up is a bit of a hack, but it's working phenomenally >> well on both FreeBSD and Windows, and with it the Windows aoo-win7 >> buildbot >> has successfully bootstrapped for the first time in memorable history, and >> with VCVARS32.BAT eliminated it looks like it may even finish building >> successfully! >> > > This sounds very promising. I hope it works. > Every nightly buildbot bootstraps now and every *nix buildbot among them builds successfully. I consider the patch a complete success. The snapshot buildbots still can't bootstrap unless they have LWP::Protocol::https installed - not until we make another snapshot for them with r1753943 merged. It's just Windows we have to fix now. See the other thread.
