[Development] [Releasing] [Interest] download.qt.io is down

[Frank Osterfeld]

Hi,

trying to get the official 5.6.3 mingw32 offline installer (which I then found on ICS’ mirror), I’ve noticed:

- The server has everything <= 5.1 and >= 5.9, but everything in between seems still missing? 
- On the old server, the top-level directory for the old releases was “new_archive”, now it’s “new-archive”, which leads to dead links in Google. That should be easy to fix.

Regards,

> On 22. Jan 2021, at 07:57, Tuukka Turunen <tuukka.turunen at qt.io> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
>  
> Status update of the problem with open-source downloads: Last night we finally got a disk big enough for the packages from the service provider. Most of the data has been transferred throughout the night with a few last things still being uploaded to the new virtual server. After the data transfer is complete we start testing and validation of the data and the system. Target is to enable first the online installer, then the offline packages and finally the achieve of old releases. 
>  
> Yours,
>  
>                 Tuukka
>  
> From: Development <development-bounces at qt-project.org>
> Date: Thursday, 21. January 2021 at 18.08
> To: Qt Project Development <development at qt-project.org>
> Subject: Re: [Development] [Releasing] [Interest] download.qt.io is down
> 
> Hi,
>  
> Status update on the open-source distribution topic is that we are still waiting for the cloud service provider. Today they been able to provide us with new virtual machines for the distribution, but not yet big enough disk space for the release data. As soon as we have the disk available, we can start transferring the release packages to it, test that everything works and put the system back online.
>  
> Yours,
>  
>                 Tuukka
>  
>  
> From: Sze Howe Koh <szehowe.koh at gmail.com>
> Date: Wednesday, 20. January 2021 at 16.09
> To: Tuukka Turunen <tuukka.turunen at qt.io>
> Cc: Qt Project Development <development at qt-project.org>
> Subject: Re: [Releasing] [Interest] download.qt.io is down
> 
> Thank you for clarifying, Tuukka.
> 
> I am (along with many others, I'm sure) delighted to hear about the
> upcoming ability to officially select mirrors, and look forward to an
> improved download experience going forward. MirrorBrain does not
> always pick the best source. [1]
> 
> Best of luck with setting up an alternative file server.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Sze-Howe
> 
> [1] https://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2018-April/032461.html
> 
> 
> On Wed, 20 Jan 2021 at 18:35, Tuukka Turunen <tuukka.turunen at qt.io> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> >
> > To explain a bit why I was mistaken about the online in the mail I sent last night. We have a development feature that allows selecting the mirror manually. I thought it could be used, but it turned out we had not released that version of the installer. Would have been handy, but since it is not already released, the best approach is to re-create the master. We are doing that now. We will also have this feature in the installer released (after we can again make releases), because it is sometimes handy to tell explicitly what server to download from.
> >
> >
> >
> > Yours,
> >
> >
> >
> >                 Tuukka
> >
> >
> >
> > From: Development <development-bounces at qt-project.org>
> > Date: Wednesday, 20. January 2021 at 8.06
> > To: Sze Howe Koh <szehowe.koh at gmail.com>
> > Cc: development at qt-project.org <development at qt-project.org>, releasing at qt-project.org <releasing at qt-project.org>, Interests Qt <Interest at qt-project.org>
> > Subject: Re: [Development] [Releasing] [Interest] download.qt.io is down
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> >
> > Yes, this is correct.
> >
> >
> >
> > Yours,
> >
> >
> >
> >                 Tuukka
> >
> >
> >
> > From: Sze Howe Koh <szehowe.koh at gmail.com>
> > Date: Wednesday, 20. January 2021 at 0.10
> > To: Tuukka Turunen <tuukka.turunen at qt.io>
> > Cc: Mark Long <markdlong128 at gmail.com>, development at qt-project.org <development at qt-project.org>, Interests Qt <Interest at qt-project.org>, releasing at qt-project.org <releasing at qt-project.org>
> > Subject: Re: [Releasing] [Interest] download.qt.io is down
> >
> > On Wed, 20 Jan 2021 at 04:10, Tuukka Turunen <tuukka.turunen at qt.io> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > There are multiple mirrors, try for example:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > https://qt-mirror.dannhauer.de/
> > >
> > > https://www.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/download.qt-project.org/
> > >
> > > https://ftp.fau.de/qtproject/
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ...or just use the online installer, which picks mirrors automatically.
> > >
> > > Yours,
> > >
> > > Tuukka
> >
> > Hi Tuuka,
> >
> > The Online installer downloads files in 2 phases:
> >
> > 1. Retrieve metadata from download.qt.io
> > 2. Retrieve actual binaries from the auto-selected mirror
> >
> > Since Step #1 is blocked, it can't proceed to Step #2.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Sze-Howe
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