158424 – Feature installation fails due to mirror selection

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Bug 158424 - Feature installation fails due to mirror selection

Summary: Feature installation fails due to mirror selection

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 145235

Alias:	None

Product:	Platform
Classification:	Eclipse Project
Component:	Update (deprecated - use Eclipse>Equinox>p2) (show other bugs)
Version:	3.2
Hardware:	PC Windows XP

Importance:	P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone:	---
Assignee:	Platform-Update-Inbox
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Reported:	2006-09-23 12:12 EDT by Andreas Goetz
Modified:	2007-04-15 05:44 EDT (History)
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Description Andreas Goetz

2006-09-23 12:12:35 EDT

In bug 156979, I've tried to install UML2 using the update site. This works fine when not using mirrors. Once 'Automatically select mirror' is turned on, the install fails as no features to install are found. It seems that the (automatically) selected mirror site does not fully mirror the UML features.
My proposal is that the mirror selection should automatically fall back to the original site or any of the other mirrors if the mirror does not offer the same (full) content as the original site.

Comment 1 Denis Roy

2007-04-13 08:40:02 EDT

I think this is a dupe of bug 145235

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 145235 ***

Comment 2 Andreas Goetz

2007-04-13 08:44:00 EDT

Not quite- in my case the mirror was physically available, but did not have the original content. Both issues should be addressed.

Comment 3 Dejan Glozic

2007-04-13 09:54:38 EDT

Update Manager cannot be responsible for mirror content. Garbage in, garbage out.

Comment 4 Andreas Goetz

2007-04-15 05:44:26 EDT

For sure. It might know though that original site is fine and mirror not- and in this case switch to next mirror or back to original site? Since the mirrors are auto-discovered, that should be possible?