Hi,
the deployment of add-ons from the Moodle plugin database does not work. In Moodle 2.5rc1+ (20130513) I get the following error message.
Ralf

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exception 'download_file_exception' with message 'Unable to download the package' in mdeploy.php:761
Stack trace:
#0 mdeploy.php(1520): worker->execute()
#1