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

[Sze Howe Koh]

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:
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> Hi,
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> 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.
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> Yours,
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>                 Tuukka
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> 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
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> Hi,
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> Yes, this is correct.
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> Yours,
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>                 Tuukka
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> 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
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> On Wed, 20 Jan 2021 at 04:10, Tuukka Turunen <tuukka.turunen at qt.io> wrote:
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> > Hi,
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> > There are multiple mirrors, try for example:
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> > https://qt-mirror.dannhauer.de/
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> > https://www.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/download.qt-project.org/
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> > https://ftp.fau.de/qtproject/
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> > ...or just use the online installer, which picks mirrors automatically.
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> > Yours,
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> > Tuukka
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> Hi Tuuka,
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> The Online installer downloads files in 2 phases:
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> 1. Retrieve metadata from download.qt.io
> 2. Retrieve actual binaries from the auto-selected mirror
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> Since Step #1 is blocked, it can't proceed to Step #2.
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> Regards,
> Sze-Howe