Merge lp:~canonical-platform-qa/qa-jenkins-jobs/git-retry-lifeboat into lp:qa-jenkins-jobs

[Allan LeSage]

Retry git checkout of lifeboat service.

We sometimes get 500s from Launchpad git service, instead of failing retry!

[Max Brustkern (nuclearbob)]

That's awesome, I didn't know shell had until.

review: Approve

[lp:~canonical-platform-qa/qa-jenkins-jobs/git-retry-lifeboat]

52. By Allan LeSage on 2016-04-18

De-tabify.

=== modified file 'ubuntu-system-tests/jobs.yaml'
--- ubuntu-system-tests/jobs.yaml	2016-03-10 21:53:46 +0000
+++ ubuntu-system-tests/jobs.yaml	2016-04-18 16:27:27 +0000
@@ -129,7 +129,18 @@
 
             # use plars' lifeboat scripts to get our adb serial
             rm -rf lifeboat
-            git clone $LIFEBOAT_BRANCH lifeboat
+            # we occasionally see 500s from Launchpad git service
+            GIT_RETRY=0
+            until git clone $LIFEBOAT_BRANCH lifeboat || [ $GIT_RETRY -gt 10 ]; do
+                sleep 1
+                GIT_RETRY=$(($GIT_RETRY+1))
+                echo "git clone lifeboat attempt failed, trying again . . .'
+            done
+            if [ $GIT_RETRY -gt 10 ]; then
+                echo "error: git clone lifeboat failed!"
+                exit 1
+            fi
+
             export ANDROID_SERIAL=$(./lifeboat/get-device-info serial $NODE_NAME)
 
             rm -rf $WORKSPACE/results