Downloads failing for boostorg.jfrog.io, affecting several important packages

[brianwestphal]

At least these two that I'm running into:

• react-native-reanimated: The boost_1_76_0.tar.gz file is not in GZIP format software-mansion/react-native-reanimated#5542
• react-native-mmkv: React-Native Android build is failing with error - Task :react-native-mmkv:prepareBoost FAILED mrousavy/react-native-mmkv#617

Unable to fetch from https://boostorg.jfrog.io/artifactory/main/release/1.76.0/source/boost_1_76_0.tar.gz

Was this changed intentionally/unintentionally?

[md-irefer]

i got the "Not in GZIP format" in expo-modules-core

[userdocs]

The three issues before yours are all specific to this issue. This is essentially just a duplicate of them.

#845
#844
#843

[codebycarlos]

This is having a significant effect with users unable to compile apps for React Native:

facebook/react-native#42109 (comment)

[cortinico]

Hey all,
Nicola here from the React Native team.
Here is the official recommendation on how to overcome this failure:

• [Resolved] Error installing boost Verification checksum was incorrect. facebook/react-native#42180

[sjmudd]

Also affects MySQL building: https://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=113576

[Icehunter]

@cortinico it affects android as well, as we only ship android, so we went the patch package route as well.

[cortinico]

@cortinico it affects android as well, as we only ship android, so we went the patch package route as well.

Nope it does not affect Android as we distribute a prebuilt and users don't need to re-download boost. If you're seeing a failure, that's caused by one of your dependencies that should not re-download boost

[Icehunter]

@cortinico it affects android as well, as we only ship android, so we went the patch package route as well.

Nope it does not affect Android as we distribute a prebuilt and users don't need to re-download boost. If you're seeing a failure, that's caused by one of your dependencies that should not re-download boost

We use reanimated, but I'm not quit sure what to say. If I patch-package react-native (0.73.1) than building release works.

[hannojg]

@cortinico In case of Expensify (react native partner), they are building react native from source, so they need to download boost. There we also get the Not in GZIP format error.
Is the fix from iOS transferable to android?

[hannojg]

Okay, sorry, taking my words back. Seems like the issue is with the reanimated package! Sorry for the ping

[jzhou77]

Downloading failed for:
https://boostorg.jfrog.io/artifactory/main/release/1.78.0/source/boost_1_78_0.tar.bz2

See these error messages on the page:

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[userdocs]

@jzhou77 this is the solution - #843 (comment)

https://archives.boost.io/release/1.78.0/source/boost_1_78_0.tar.bz2

[jamiecook]

Looks like archives.boost.io is the recommendation from the downloads page.
Vote to close this issue as resolved.

[jmccabe]

This page, on the Boost website, needs to be updated or removed. https://www.boost.org/users/news/boost_has_moved_downloads_to_jfr.html