Added automatic retry for Sourceforge mirrors. The new download process is

to first just try dl.sourceforge.net, then randomly select mirror IPs and
remove ones that fail, until something works.  The removed IPs stay removed
for the remainder of the run.

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branch : setuptools
extra : convert_revision : svn%3A6015fed2-1504-0410-9fe1-9d1591cc4771/sandbox/trunk/setuptools%4045219

EasyInstall.txt

@@ -1097,9 +1097,11 @@ set, if you haven't already got this set up on your machine.
 Release Notes/Change History
 ============================
 
-Known Issues
- * There's no automatic retry for borked Sourceforge mirrors, which can easily
-   time out or be missing a file.
+0.6a12
+ * Added automatic retry for Sourceforge mirrors.  The new download process is
+   to first just try dl.sourceforge.net, then randomly select mirror IPs and
+   remove ones that fail, until something works.  The removed IPs stay removed
+   for the remainder of the run.
 
 0.6a11
  * Process ``dependency_links.txt`` if found in a distribution, by adding the

setuptools/package_index.py

@@ -530,6 +530,47 @@ class PackageIndex(Environment):
 
     def reporthook(self, url, filename, blocknum, blksize, size):
         pass    # no-op
+
+    def retry_sf_download(self, url, filename):
+        try:
+            return self._download_to(url, filename)
+        except:
+            scheme, server, path, param, query, frag = urlparse.urlparse(url)
+            if server!='dl.sourceforge.net':
+                raise
+
+        mirror = get_sf_ip()
+
+        while _sf_mirrors:
+            self.warn("Download failed: %s", sys.exc_info()[1])
+            url = urlparse.urlunparse((scheme, mirror, path, param, '', frag))
+            try:
+                return self._download_to(url, filename)
+            except:
+                _sf_mirrors.remove(mirror)  # don't retry the same mirror
+                mirror = get_sf_ip()
+
+        raise   # fail if no mirror works
+
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     def open_url(self, url):
         try:
@@ -562,7 +603,7 @@ class PackageIndex(Environment):
         if scheme=='svn' or scheme.startswith('svn+'):
             return self._download_svn(url, filename)
         else:
-            headers = self._download_to(url, filename)
+            headers = self.retry_sf_download(url, filename)
             if 'html' in headers['content-type'].lower():
                 return self._download_html(url, headers, filename, tmpdir)
             else:
@@ -618,19 +659,19 @@ def fix_sf_url(url):
     if server!='prdownloads.sourceforge.net':
         return url
     return urlparse.urlunparse(
-        (scheme, get_sf_ip(), 'sourceforge'+path, param, '', frag)
+        (scheme, 'dl.sourceforge.net', 'sourceforge'+path, param, '', frag)
     )
 
-def get_sf_ip(_mirrors=[]):
-    if not _mirrors:
+_sf_mirrors = []
+
+def get_sf_ip():
+    if not _sf_mirrors:
         try:
-            _mirrors[:] = socket.gethostbyname_ex('dl.sourceforge.net')[-1]
+            _sf_mirrors[:] = socket.gethostbyname_ex('dl.sourceforge.net')[-1]
         except socket.error:
             # DNS-bl0ck1n9 f1r3w4llz sUx0rs!
-            _mirrors[:] = ['dl.sourceforge.net']
-    return random.choice(_mirrors)
-
-
+            _sf_mirrors[:] = ['dl.sourceforge.net']
+    return random.choice(_sf_mirrors)