Fail fast and retry when apt hangs installing libvips - #2227
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The Install libvips step has twice hung for 40+ minutes on a wedged apt mirror (two shards each on 2026-08-18 and 2026-08-19), forcing a manual cancel and rerun. Bound each apt command with a timeout and retry up to three times, with a 5-minute ceiling on the whole step. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
The "Install libvips" step in verify.yml has hung indefinitely on a wedged apt mirror twice in two days (2026-08-18 run 32157036515 and 2026-08-19 run 32275921605, two shards each time), sitting at 40+ minutes until manually cancelled and rerun while every other shard passed in under 5 minutes.
This bounds the step so mirror trouble self-heals instead of wedging the job:
apt-get update/apt-get installinvocation runs under a 90-secondtimeoutwithAcquire::Retries=3and a 15-second HTTP timeouttimeout-minutes: 5on the step as a hard ceiling, so the worst case is a fast, retryable failure rather than a silent hangTesting
Not testable locally; the happy path is unchanged (
apt-get update && apt-get install libvips42) and will be exercised by this PR's own CI run.🤖 Generated with Claude Code