ci: Retry lint image building once after failure
What the developer wrote
Authored by MarcoFalke
ci: Retry lint image building once after failure
The same was done for the other CI tasks in commit fa6aa9f42fa. This may
guard against intermittent network issues to download the base image or
packages ...
What changed, and why it matters
This change simply makes the automated CI (continuous integration) system retry building a lint Docker image one time if the first attempt fails, waiting 3 seconds between attempts. It is a reliability improvement for internal testing infrastructure and does not touch any Bitcoin Core code that handles transactions, wallets, networking, or consensus rules.
No security action required. Treat as routine CI infrastructure maintenance.
Security signals we found
No security-relevant code changes
Only CI workflow YAML modified
No changes to consensus, networking, wallet, or cryptographic code
Retry logic is a reliability/availability improvement, not a security control
Evidence from the diff
The commit modifies .github/workflows/ci.yml to add a single retry with a 3-second sleep around the Docker build command used for the lint CI job. It imports the time module and changes run(build_cmd) to if run(build_cmd, check=False).returncode != 0: print(...); time.sleep(3); run(build_cmd). This mirrors an earlier change for other CI tasks and is intended to mitigate transient network or package-download failures.
Changed components
.github/workflows/ci.ymlGitHub Actions CI lint jobInspect captured patch +5 / −2
diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 323d0a71..5a316c68 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -601,7 +601,7 @@ jobs:
- name: CI script
shell: python
run: |
- import os, shlex, subprocess, sys
+ import os, shlex, subprocess, sys, time
def run(cmd, **kwargs):
print("+ " + shlex.join(cmd), flush=True)
@@ -621,7 +621,10 @@ jobs:
"."
]
- run(build_cmd)
+ if run(build_cmd, check=False).returncode != 0:
+ print("Retry building image tag after failure")
+ time.sleep(3)
+ run(build_cmd)
CIRRUS_PR_FLAG = []
if '${{ github.event_name }}' == "pull_request":
Why this scored 17/100
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