Makes sense. Thanks for looking into this.

On Sun, Jul 15, 2018 at 1:51 PM Sean Owen <sro...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Yesterday I cleaned out old Spark releases from the mirror system -- we're
> supposed to only keep the latest release from active branches out on
> mirrors. (All releases are available from the Apache archive site.)
>
> Having done so I realized quickly that the
> HiveExternalCatalogVersionsSuite relies on the versions it downloads being
> available from mirrors. It has been flaky, as sometimes mirrors are
> unreliable. I think now it will not work for any versions except 2.3.1,
> 2.2.2, 2.1.3.
>
> Because we do need to clean those releases out of the mirrors soon anyway,
> and because they're flaky sometimes, I propose adding logic to the test to
> fall back on downloading from the Apache archive site.
>
> ... and I'll do that right away to unblock
> HiveExternalCatalogVersionsSuite runs. I think it needs to be backported to
> other branches as they will still be testing against potentially
> non-current Spark releases.
>
> Sean
>

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