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has caused the Debian Bug report #868477,
regarding jenkins: propose: use apt's Acquire:Retries options to limit the
number of failures?
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Package: jenkins.debian.org
we have a huge number of jobs calling apt and downloading stuff from the
net. From time to time those tend to fail due to some network glitch,
despite being a proxy and using deb.d.o that already limit those.
Therefore I propose injecting the apt option
Acquire:Retries
to a value of 3 to as many APTs as possible (reproducible pbuilder and
schroot chroots, chroot-run chroots, more?)
From apt.conf(5):
THE ACQUIRE GROUP
The Acquire group of options controls the download of packages as well
as the
various "acquire methods" responsible for the download itself (see also
sources.list(5)).
Retries
Number of retries to perform. If this is non-zero APT will retry
failed files
the given number of times.
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Mattia Rizzolo
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apt doing 3 retries is the default now, see #869859 and
https://salsa.debian.org/apt-team/apt/-/commit/10631550f1
from April 15th 2021, thus closing this bug.
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cheers,
Holger
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blockchaineinträge sind wie liebesschlösser an brückengeländern. ja, die
dinger haben eine gewisse security, aber das anhängen ist ein rein
symbolischer akt, ohne garantie, dass es ernst gemeint ist. was bleibt ist
kitsch, dessen kosten auf die gemeinschaft abgewälzt werden. (@mspro)
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