Updated docs. Added retrying for the localkube download.

Makefile

@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ BUILD_OS := $(shell uname -s)
 
 # Set the version information for the Kubernetes servers, and build localkube statically
 K8S_VERSION_LDFLAGS := $(shell $(PYTHON) hack/get_k8s_version.py 2>&1)
-MINIKUBE_LDFLAGS := -X k8s.io/minikube/pkg/version.version=$(VERSION) $(K8S_VERSION_LDFLAGS)
+MINIKUBE_LDFLAGS := -X k8s.io/minikube/pkg/version.version=$(VERSION)
 LOCALKUBE_LDFLAGS := "$(K8S_VERSION_LDFLAGS) $(MINIKUBE_LDFLAGS) -s -w -extldflags '-static'"
 
 MKGOPATH := if [ ! -e $(GOPATH)/src/$(ORG) ]; then mkdir -p $(GOPATH)/src/$(ORG) && ln -s -f $(shell pwd) $(GOPATH)/src/$(ORG); fi

cmd/minikube/cmd/start.go

@@ -35,13 +35,14 @@ import (
 )
 
 var (
-	minikubeISO      string
-	memory           int
-	cpus             int
-	disk             = newUnitValue(20 * units.GB)
-	vmDriver         string
-	dockerEnv        []string
-	insecureRegistry []string
+	minikubeISO       string
+	memory            int
+	cpus              int
+	disk              = newUnitValue(20 * units.GB)
+	vmDriver          string
+	dockerEnv         []string
+	insecureRegistry  []string
+	kubernetesVersion string
 )
 
 // startCmd represents the start command

docs/minikube_start.md

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ minikube start
       --docker-env=[]: Environment variables to pass to the Docker daemon. (format: key=value)
       --insecure-registry=[]: Insecure Docker registries to pass to the Docker daemon
       --iso-url="https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/minikube-0.5.iso": Location of the minikube iso
-      --kubernetes-version="v1.3.0+$Format:%h$": The kubernetes version that the minikube VM will run
+      --kubernetes-version="v1.3.0": The kubernetes version that the minikube VM will run
       --memory=1024: Amount of RAM allocated to the minikube VM
       --vm-driver="virtualbox": VM driver is one of: [virtualbox vmwarefusion kvm xhyve]
 ```

pkg/minikube/cluster/cluster.go

@@ -49,6 +49,8 @@ var (
 	certs = []string{"ca.crt", "ca.key", "apiserver.crt", "apiserver.key"}
 )
 
+var numRetries = 5
+
 //This init function is used to set the logtostderr variable to false so that INFO level log info does not clutter the CLI
 //INFO lvl logging is displayed due to the kubernetes api calling flag.Set("logtostderr", "true") in its init()
 //see: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/pkg/util/logs.go#L32-34
@@ -227,23 +229,34 @@ var assets = []fileToCopy{
 	},
 }
 
+// Returns a function that will return n errors, then return successfully forever.
+func localkubeDownloader(resp *http.Response, config KubernetesConfig) func() error {
+	return func() (err error) {
+		tmpResp, err := http.Get(util.GetLocalkubeDownloadURL(config.KubernetesVersion,
+			constants.LocalkubeLinuxFilename))
+		resp.Body = tmpResp.Body
+		resp.ContentLength = tmpResp.ContentLength
+		fmt.Println(int(resp.ContentLength))
+		return err
+	}
+}
+
 func UpdateCluster(h sshAble, d drivers.Driver, config KubernetesConfig) error {
 	client, err := sshutil.NewSSHClient(d)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
 	if localkubeURLWasSpecified(config) {
-		resp, err := http.Get(util.GetLocalkubeDownloadURL(config.KubernetesVersion,
-			constants.LocalkubeLinuxFilename))
-		if err != nil {
+		resp := &http.Response{}
+		f := localkubeDownloader(resp, config)
+		if err := util.Retry(5, f); err != nil {
 			return err
 		}
+		fmt.Println(int(resp.ContentLength))
 		if err := sshutil.Transfer(resp.Body, int(resp.ContentLength), "/usr/local/bin",
-			"localkube", "0777",
-			client); err != nil {
+			"localkube", "0777", client); err != nil {
 			return err
 		}
-
 	} else {
 		contents, err := Asset("out/localkube")
 		if err != nil {

pkg/minikube/constants/constants.go

@@ -17,9 +17,7 @@ limitations under the License.
 package constants
 
 import (
-	"fmt"
 	"path/filepath"
-	"strings"
 
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/client/unversioned/clientcmd"
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/util/homedir"

pkg/util/utils.go

@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"io"
 	"os"
+	"strings"
 	"time"
 
 	"k8s.io/minikube/pkg/minikube/constants"