[Bug 1654700] Re: Wrong permissions: Downloading andale32.exe fails

[Thomas Mayer]

I filed a separate issue 1654702 for the permissions problem.

However, after temporarily fixing permissions of that directory, I still
struggle to download the files automatically:

Sourceforge seems to set a mirror per files. Rarely one of the mirrors
is hosting the file.

Now that msttfcorefonts-installer tries to download many files,
sourceforge sets a separate mirror for each file.

Chances are high that one of the mirrors fails.

If one of the mirror fails msttfcorefonts-installer fails.

I tried about 20 times now and msttfcorefonts-installer never succeeded
to download the files.

Suggested fix:
- Use one fixed mirror to download all the files
- And/or: Try multiple times
- And/or: Use reliable hosting

** Summary changed:

- Wrong permissions: Downloading andale32.exe fails
+ Downloading fonts fails: Most sf mirrors fail

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Title:
  Downloading fonts fails: Most sf mirrors fail

Status in msttcorefonts package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Downloading andale32.exe returns http status 404 (not found):

  ttf-mscorefonts-installer: processing...
  ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
  Fehl:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
    404  Not Found
  W: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file '/var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/partial/andale32.exe' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Keine Berechtigung)
  E: Fehlschlag beim Holen von https://vorboss.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the fonts/final/andale32.exe  404  Not Found

  E: Herunterladen fehlgeschlagen

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-57.78-generic 4.4.35
  Uname: Linux 4.4.0-57-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.4
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sat Jan  7 03:46:44 2017
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-11-29 (769 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140722.2)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=de_DE
   TERM=xterm-256color
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: msttcorefonts
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-06-15 (205 days ago)

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