Ubuntu
flashplugin-nonfree package

  1. Bug #876298
  2. Comment #0

Comment 0 for bug 876298

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

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.