[SOLR-14600] Download package jars from external locations

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Not A Problem
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Ishan Chattopadhyaya
• Created: 27/Jun/20 10:43
• Updated: 15/Jul/20 15:21
• Resolved: 27/Jun/20 11:11

Description

Currently, artifacts for a package should be co-located with the repository.json (and publickey.der). However, as kezhenxu94 brought up, it would be nice to have jars hosted via Github released artifacts. In such a case, the repository.json will include URLs to download the jars from.