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 >