Fixing the blender.org blocking Python http lib issue

blender/init.sls

@@ -1,19 +1,28 @@
 {% from "blender/map.jinja" import blender with context %}
 
-# 1. Download and extract directly from download.blender.org
+# 1. Download tarball to minion's local cache/tmp directory with custom User-Agent
+blender_download_tarball:
+  file.managed:
+    - name: /var/tmp/blender-{{ blender.version }}-linux-x64.tar.xz
+    - source: {{ blender.download_url }}
+    - skip_verify: True
+    - http_headers:
+        User-Agent: 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:120.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/120.0'
+    - unless:
+      - test -d {{ blender.archive_dir }}
+
+# 2. Extract from local file system
 blender_extract_tarball:
   archive.extracted:
     - name: {{ blender.archive_dir }}
-    - source: {{ blender.download_url }}
-    - skip_verify: True
+    - source: /var/tmp/blender-{{ blender.version }}-linux-x64.tar.xz
     - enforce_ownership_on: {{ blender.archive_dir }}
     - options: '--strip-components=1'
     - if_missing: {{ blender.archive_dir }}/blender
-    # Pass a modern browser User-Agent to bypass CDN bot filters
-    - http_headers:
-        User-Agent: 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36'
+    - require:
+      - file: blender_download_tarball
 
-# 2. Maintain generic symlink pointing to active version
+# 3. Maintain generic symlink pointing to active version
 blender_opt_symlink:
   file.symlink:
     - name: {{ blender.symlink_dir }}
@@ -22,7 +31,7 @@ blender_opt_symlink:
     - require:
       - archive: blender_extract_tarball
 
-# 3. Create CLI launcher symlink
+# 4. Create CLI launcher symlink
 blender_bin_symlink:
   file.symlink:
     - name: {{ blender.bin_dir }}/blender
@@ -31,7 +40,7 @@ blender_bin_symlink:
     - require:
       - file: blender_opt_symlink
 
-# 4. Deploy desktop menu shortcut
+# 5. Deploy desktop menu shortcut
 blender_desktop_entry:
   file.managed:
     - name: {{ blender.desktop_dir }}/blender.desktop
@@ -46,3 +55,10 @@ blender_desktop_entry:
         icon_path: "{{ blender.symlink_dir }}/blender.svg"
     - require:
       - file: blender_opt_symlink
+
+# 6. Optional: Clean up cached tarball after extraction
+blender_cleanup_tarball:
+  file.absent:
+    - name: /var/tmp/blender-{{ blender.version }}-linux-x64.tar.xz
+    - require:
+      - archive: blender_extract_tarball