[DIRSTUDIO-1055] Investigate usage of mirrors for update site

• Type: Task
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Not A Problem
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.0-M9 (2.0.0.v20150606-M9)
• Component/s: studio-updatesite
• Assignee: Stefan Seelmann
• Reporter: Stefan Seelmann
• Created: 11/Jun/15 23:00
• Updated: 18/Apr/20 11:40
• Resolved: 12/Jun/15 22:02

Description

Apache projects should use mirrors for downloads. We use them for normal download pages, and also for Eclipse update site.

A mirror can be down. On the normal download page that is no big problem, a reload of the page chooses another mirror.

But with Eclipse update site it is different: If the mirror is not available it just shows "No content", only the log shows an error. Even worse is that Eclipse remembers the URL and reuses it. I had bad luck to get apache.myamplifiers.com (INFRA-9804) which isn't working, and also after Eclipse restart it continued to contact that site.

We have to investigate a better way how to use mirros for the update site. Maybe it can be configured that it isn't retried.

In the meantime I'll configure the update site to use "www.apache.org/dist", this will at least distribute downloads to two servers.

Issue Links

• relates to: DIRSTUDIO-1092 Eclipse Mars.1 plug-in update URL link does not work with Mars.1