Re: [Flightgear-devel] Possible issue with base package download with fresh 2024.1 installs

[Joshua M. <fli...@jo...>]

I did cancel and retry at one point with no luck, although it actually picked up some speed after I posted on the ML (typical).

If we could move it to GitLab that would be super, as we would likely get better speeds and better infra. Although a Pages approach would require the base package file(s) be tracked in the Git repo that the pages site is built from to my knowledge. So if it’s the tar archive or whichever we’d have to stick that in Git AFAIK, which would likely make the repo quite heavy very quickly.

Maybe if FGData had a CI job for building the base package, we could use the artifact link, similar to how we provide downloads for the releases on GitLab. Not sure how hacky that is or how it would scale as the base package increases, but just an off-the-cuff idea.

On Tue, Jan 7, 2025 at 11:41 AM, James Turner <[ja...@fl...](mailto:On Tue, Jan 7, 2025 at 11:41 AM, James Turner <<a href=)> wrote:

>> On 7 Jan 2025, at 14:45, Joshua Murphy <fli...@jo...> wrote:
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>> I was doing a clean install of 2024.1.1 (Linux RC, AppImage). My internet appears to working totally fine as validated by a speed test, but there's something way off with the download speed for the base package - it's probably in the single or low double digit kbit/s if I had to guess. SourceForge (the source for the download IIRC) appears to be online, so I'm wondering if it's just a blip or if anyone else is experiencing this? Would anyone care to try and replicate and see if they also have prohibitively slow DL speeds?
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>> I'm not too bothered as I can just download it the old fashioned way, just more concerned about the experience for new users or this potentially being indicative of a larger issue upstream, maybe we're getting rate-limited by SF or something?
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> It’s probably the SF mirror selection: can you cancel and try again?
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> Basically some of the SF mirrors seem to be really slow, others are fast.
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> I am debating just switching over to using GitLab pages for the download, but I never had a SF mirror that was *that* bad, so far.
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> Kind regards,
> James