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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