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Update manifests fetched with a compressed variant in parallel

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Update manifests fetch plain and compressed versions at once instead of retrying in sequence.

What

Fetching the manifest that drives installs and updates now requests the plain and compressed versions at the same time and continues with a logged reason when the compressed one is absent, replacing a serial retry loop.

Evidence

No compressed manifest for

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