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

[Steve Langasek]

This has nothing to do with the adobe-flash-plugin-tools project.
Marking invalid.

The behavior you're seeing is by design.  If you want flashplugin-
nonfree to use a proxy for downloads, you need to set this via the
http_proxy environment variable, and not just using the apt proxy
settings.  See bug #979477 for the justification for this behavior
change.

If you're using the desktop proxy configuration dialog, this will be
done automatically for you.  Otherwise, you can manually set http_proxy
in /etc/environment.  Regardless, note that there is a bug in sudo that
currently prevents /etc/environment from being applied to sudo sessions:
bug #982684.

** Changed in: adobe-flash-plugin-tools
       Status: Confirmed => Invalid

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

Status in Adobe Flash Plugin Tools:
  Invalid
Status in “flashplugin-nonfree” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “msttcorefonts” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “update-notifier” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

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.

  This change requires a freeze exception for precise, as it involves
  adding new features to update-notifier and significant reworking of
  the maintainer scripts for the affected packages.  It also introduces
  new UI components; however these UI components are only visible in the
  event of a failure, so I don't think we should block on UI freeze for
  making this change given the significant benefit to the install
  experience when a download fails.

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