[Bug 876298] Re: [MASTER] We need to better handle external payloads (Flash, msttcorefonts) not being available.

[Barry Warsaw]

One thought, which I'm sure is horrible.  u-m could have a list of
packages in its conf file which contain external payloads, and if one of
these packages fails to install, it could essentially ignore that (with
a warning, dialog, or setting to control this) and continue on with the
installation.  It would be kind of automatically retried the next time
u-m ran since it would still see that package as needing installation.
Not sure what would happen if the failed-to-install package had
dependencies though.

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Title:
  [MASTER] We need to better handle external payloads (Flash,
  msttcorefonts) not being available.

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  At the 11.10 release archive.canonical.com collapsed under heavy load
  and started returning 503 errors.  This caused the flash package to be
  unable to grab its payload and thus caused the package to fail, which
  in turn caused the installation to fail.

  The current plan is to add metadata to a package where it can add a
  URL to retrieve its data, so ubiquity and apt-get --download-only can
  cache it.  We also need a way to queue up package installation post-
  install, for when we commit to installing flash but cannot do so due
  to network issues, or when the user wishes to have full language
  support post-install.

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