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

[Holger Levsen]

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thanks

We already configure apt in many places, so it should be trivial
to hook in somewhere:

$ rgrep -l Acquire *
bin/schroot-create.sh
bin/chroot-installation.sh
bin/reproducible_maintenance.sh
bin/find_dpkg_trigger_cycles.sh
bin/chroot-run.sh
hosts/common-armhf/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/80proxy
hosts/osuosl5-amd64/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/80proxy
hosts/ionos11-amd64/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/80proxy
hosts/ionos1-amd64/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/80proxy
hosts/ionos12-i386/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/80proxy
hosts/ionos10-amd64/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/80proxy
hosts/ionos5-amd64/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/80proxy
hosts/osuosl4-amd64/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/80proxy
hosts/jenkins/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50apt-file.conf
hosts/jenkins/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/80proxy
hosts/ionos2-i386/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/80proxy
hosts/osuosl2-amd64/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/80proxy
hosts/ionos9-amd64/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/80proxy
hosts/ionos6-i386/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/80proxy
hosts/ionos15-amd64/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/80proxy
hosts/common-arm64/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/80proxy
hosts/osuosl3-amd64/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/80proxy
hosts/ionos3-amd64/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/80proxy
hosts/osuosl1-amd64/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/80proxy
hosts/ionos16-i386/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/80proxy
hosts/common/etc/pbuilderrc
hosts/common/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99-no-pdiffs
hosts/common/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10no-package-descriptions

I'd say go for it, though personally I'm not sure it worth it, especially
if it's not done by apt by default. Also we dont see many apt failures anymore.

#869859 is a bug asking for apt to do this by default.


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	Holger

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