[Qa-jenkins-dev] Bug#868477: jenkins: propose: use apt's Acquire:Retries options to limit the number of failures?

[Mattia Rizzolo]

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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