[bug] Virtual repository breaks when remote repository becomes unreachable (and conan center is down)

[rconde01]

Environment Details (include every applicable attribute)

• Operating System+version: all
• Compiler+version: n/a
• Conan version: 1.55
• Python version: 3.11

Steps to reproduce (Include if Applicable)

Conan center appears to be down at the moment. I have a virtual repository on Artifactory that uses conan center as a remote repository. I thought some of the point here was to have a cache that was under our control, so if conan center goes down or goes away, we can continue to operate. Shouldn't this work?

[blackliner]

wow. This. Is. Bad... @memsharded

Removing the remote from the virtual repo in Artifactory did not help either, although the package is definitely available in the local repo. This is a death sentence for conan, seriously!

[memsharded]

Yes, seems ConanCenter is down, team is investigating.

[memsharded]

https://status.cloud.google.com/ it seems GoogleCloud (used by ConanCenter) is having issues, a bit outside of our reach.

[rconde01]

That's fair - but to the larger issue, shouldn't this have worked when setup via Artifactory as a remote repository?

[memsharded]

That's fair - but to the larger issue, shouldn't this have worked when setup via Artifactory as a remote repository?

Yes, we need to follow up with the Artifactory team to better understand this issue. Thanks very much for reporting it.

[memsharded]

The incident with ConanCenter seems to be resolved. Please try again and let us know.

[kymikoloco]

https://www.jfrog.com/confluence/display/JFROG/Remote+Repositories#RemoteRepositories-SingleRepositoryOffline

Manually setting the remote to Offline may be a requirement to bypass the query and allow the caching to work in these situations, albeit temporarily. Not ideal, I would also have assumed it would use the cache as a fallback, especially if there are local packages in the virtual repo unrelated to the remote, but I'm not intimately familiar with the backend of Artifactory in these situations.

[rconde01]

any feedback here from the artifactory team?

[blackliner]

They reached out to me through their commercial support channel, but other than a few misplaced explanations, no solution.