KDEWin installer bugs: md5sum error is not reported, 404 error not detected
Christian Ehrlicher
Ch.Ehrlicher at gmx.de
Mon May 19 22:34:19 CEST 2008
S Page schrieb:
> During a big update to latest, kdewin-installer-gui-0.9.2.exe displayed
> a "Download failed" dialog:
>
> The download of
> http://www.winkde.org/pub/kde/ports/win32/releases/unstable/latest/./kdewin32-
> msvc-0.3.6-1-bin.tar.bz2 failed with error No error
> [Retry] [Ignore] [Cancel]
>
> but kdewin-installer.log (full log below) shows
> "Debug:C:\downloads\kdesvn\trunk\kdesupport\kdewin-installer\shared\package.cpp
> 532 Package::downloadItem md5sum is not correct - error downloading file! "
>
> BUG? The KDEWin installer GUI should show the actual error string
> instead of "No error".
>
> When I clicked Retry I got the same error report and similar log file
> entries.
>
>
> I think in the middle of my download some hard-working elves put even
> newer packages in unstable/latest (excellent! 8-) ), so when I retried
> (and maybe the first time it failed) this file was missing altogether on
> the web server, which now has version 0.3.7-1. The contents of my local
> kdewin32-msvc-0.3.6-1-bin.tar.bz2 file are just the HTML of the web
> server's "Object not found!" Error 404 page.
>
> BUG? The KDEWin installer should detect HTTP errors like 404 Not found
> and report something like "File missing on web server" rather than
> saving an error page as the file then noticing its md5sum is wrong.
>
> Should I file these bugs?
>
When this only happend for kdewin32-0.3.6-1 all is fine - this was my fault.
Christian
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