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ci(standalone): give the smoketest's apt step a budget that outlasts its retries #454

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10 changes: 9 additions & 1 deletion .github/workflows/ci.yml
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Expand Up @@ -78,7 +78,15 @@ jobs:
# attempt) and rotate the mirror host between attempts so a sustained
# single-mirror problem is escaped. Azure first (fast, same datacenter),
# archive.ubuntu.com as fallback. --no-install-recommends trims the download.
timeout-minutes: 10
#
# 16 minutes, not 10: the budget has to outlast the schedule it wraps, or
# Actions kills the step mid-attempt and the ::error:: below — the line
# that says the mirrors were rotated and still failed — never prints,
# leaving a bare timeout in exactly the sustained-outage case the mirror
# rotation exists for. Worst case is
# 3 x (120 update + 180 install) + 3 x 15 sleep = 945s (the loop
# sleeps after the third failed attempt too, before the ::error::).
timeout-minutes: 16
run: |
mirrors=(azure.archive.ubuntu.com archive.ubuntu.com)
src_files=(/etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu.sources /etc/apt/sources.list)
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