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  1. XWiki Docker images
  2. XDOCKER-423

The image build fails on a transient network error while downloading its artifacts

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    • Resolution: Fixed
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    Description

      Problem

      The Dockerfile downloads three large artifacts with a plain curl -fSL, with no retry: the XWiki WAR
      (~350 MB) from maven.xwiki.org, the LibreOffice archive (~350 MB) from
      download.documentfoundation.org, and the JDBC driver from Maven Central. A single hiccup on any of
      them aborts the whole build.

      This is not theoretical, it happens regularly:

      • In the Docker Official Images pull request updating the image to 18.6.0, the 16 and
        17-mariadb-tomcat builds failed with curl: (92) HTTP/2 stream 1 was not closed cleanly: CANCEL
        while downloading the XWiki WAR, after the transfer had slowed to 181 KB/s. The other variants
        downloading the very same WAR succeeded, so the artifact was fine.
      • Building the twelve variants in our own CI, two of them failed with
        curl: (35) Recv failure: Connection reset by peer while downloading the LibreOffice archive.

      Every failure means a manual re-run, and for the Docker Official Images builds it means asking their
      maintainers to re-run.

      Fix

      Let curl retry these downloads instead of giving up on the first error. The sha256 verification that
      follows each download is what guarantees correctness, so retrying only affects reliability.

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            vmassol Vincent Massol
            vmassol Vincent Massol
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