Uploading external tarballs to <https://dev-www.libreoffice.org/src>?

[Stephan Bergmann]

On 4/25/24 23:02, Stephan Bergmann wrote:
> (Shortly after I had submitted 
> <https://git.libreoffice.org/extern/+/9b752c6eee74b5f540b263819b461f19befe0766%5E%21> "src/boost_1_85_0.tar.xz", a local test build of <https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/166656> "Upgrade external/boost to latest Boost 1.85.0" scarily failed with
> 
>> cd /home/sberg/lo0/tar/tmp && echo fetching boost_1_85_0.tar.xz && 
>> bash -c '/usr/bin/curl -L -O 
>> https://dev-www.libreoffice.org/src/boost_1_85_0.tar.xz 2>&1 | tee -a 
>> /home/sberg/lo0/tar/fetch.log && [ $PIPESTATUS -eq 0 ]' && SUM=`shasum 
>> -a 256 boost_1_85_0.tar.xz | sed "s/ .*//"` && if test "$SUM" != 
>> "4e23218ff5036d57afd20f7cdab2e94cdbf6ba9c509d656ace643a81c40a985a"; 
>> then echo ERROR: expected checksum for boost_1_85_0.tar.xz is 
>> 4e23218ff5036d57afd20f7cdab2e94cdbf6ba9c509d656ace643a81c40a985a 2>&1 
>> | tee -a /home/sberg/lo0/tar/fetch.log; false; fi && mv 
>> boost_1_85_0.tar.xz ../ fetching boost_1_85_0.tar.xz
>>   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     
>> Time  Current
>>                                  Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    
>> Left  Speed
>> 100   153  100   153    0     0   1131      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- 
>> --:--:--  1141
>> ERROR: expected checksum for boost_1_85_0.tar.xz is 
>> 4e23218ff5036d57afd20f7cdab2e94cdbf6ba9c509d656ace643a81c40a985a
>> make: *** [/home/sberg/lo1/core/Makefile.fetch:102: 
>> /home/sberg/lo1/core/workdir/download] Error 1
> 
> while a second attempt a little later succeeded.)

so <https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/166692> "Fail early when 
external tarball can't be fetched" to make such failure output less 
misleading