ERROR: Download of https://dl.bintray.com/lovell/sharp/... failed

[smithb1994]

It appears the link to the binary for sharp is having issues on npm install.
I'm getting this error:
ERROR: Download of https://dl.bintray.com/lovell/sharp/libvips-8.5.5-linux-x64.tar.gz failed: Response code 500 (Internal Server Error)

It appears the link https://dl.bintray.com/lovell/sharp/libvips-8.5.5-linux-x64.tar.gz is having issues.

[smithb1994]

Never mind, the error must have been temporary with the website. It's working fine now.

[bmathews]

Happens pretty frequently lately. 😬

[lovell]

Please check http://status.bintray.com/ for any relevant announcements and direct feedback to https://twitter.com/bintray

[lovell]

http://status.bintray.com/incidents/lp493rrr4xqm

[lovell]

@jbaruch I've been getting a lot of negative feedback about Bintray availability recently. Are you able to help/comment?

http://status.bintray.com/incidents/lp493rrr4xqm claims an hour of "degraded download speeds" today but messages, comments and issues I've seen, when added to a collapse in download stats, suggest this has been ongoing since around 07:30 UTC, with problems reaching a peak around 14:00 UTC today and lasting for about 5 hours.

I'm thinking of switching to Github Releases for binary distribution... are you able to tempt/convince me not to?

[lovell]

Some more evidence:
https://twitter.com/kylemathews/status/875084767259242496
gatsbyjs/gatsby#1188 (comment)

[develar]

@lovell Please consider to use Github releases instead of unreliable Bintray. e.g. electron-builder migrated to Github and now users are happy (last month Bintray returns or 404, or 500 error). Or releases to both and fallback to GitHub :)

[aberezkin]

It's better to do something with this issue asap. I can't push my project in production because of it and I think I'm not the only one.

[lovell]

With ~6k downloads/day, it looks like we're hitting Bintray's 1TB/month limit.

As a workaround for deployments, you can either (a) globally install libvips first, or (b) create a node_modules/sharp/packaging directory, place the relevant libvips-*.tar.gz file in it and run npm rebuild to use it instead of attempting a download.

[aberezkin]

I use Heroku for production and I believe there is no way to install libvips using any of these workarounds. Is there some another way?

Anyway, thank you for your help.

[lovell]

@aberezkin https://github.com/alex88/heroku-buildpack-vips or one of its more recently updated forks may help.

[jms]

looks like Bintray is no reliable today. Github could be a good alternative

> [email protected] install /Users/jenkins/tests/node_modules/sharp
> node-gyp rebuild

ERROR: Download of https://dl.bintray.com/lovell/sharp/libvips-8.4.2-darwin-x64.tar.gz 
failed: Response code 500 (Internal Server Error)

[lovell]

Commit 502ae78 will allow the base URL for the Bintray-hosted binary dependencies to be changed via the SHARP_DIST_BASE_URL environment variable. This will be in v0.18.2 onwards.

For example:

SHARP_DIST_BASE_URL="https://hostname/path/" npm install sharp

...should attempt to download https://hostname/path/libvips-8.5.5-linux-x64.tar.gz on Linux instead of using Bintray. This will at least allow for self-hosting of the binary dependencies whilst I work out Github releases (or similar).

[lovell]

Bintray are reporting more problems today - see http://status.bintray.com/incidents/v4ghm1s1xrp9 - in my experience these errors occur well before and after the reported time window. 😿

[lovell]

Created #851 for the move to Github Releases.

[lovell]

v0.18.2 now available with support for SHARP_DIST_BASE_URL. Let's use #851 to track support for Github Releases.