Registry issue in github action with Julia 1.10?

[willow-ahrens]

In my script, with the update to Julia 1.10, I'm getting:

Run julia-actions/julia-buildpkg@v1
Run echo "JULIA_PKG_SERVER_REGISTRY_PREFERENCE=${JULIA_PKG_SERVER_REGISTRY_PREFERENCE:-eager}" >> ${GITHUB_ENV}
Run if "false" == "false" && !isdir(DEPOT_PATH[1])
       Added registry `General` to `~/.julia/registries/General`
    Updating registry at `~/.julia/registries/General`
┌ Warning: could not download https://pkg.julialang.org/registry/23338594-aafe-5451-b93e-139f81909106/f995392ee85dbbb02d014c410f580299287f3f2c
└ @ Pkg.Types /buildworker/worker/package_linux64/build/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.6/Pkg/src/Types.jl:1173
    Updating registry at `~/.julia/registries/General`
┌ Warning: could not download https://pkg.julialang.org/registry/23338594-aafe-5451-b93e-139f81909106/f995392ee85dbbb02d014c410f580299287f3f2c
└ @ Pkg.Types /buildworker/worker/package_linux64/build/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.6/Pkg/src/Types.jl:1173
ERROR: LoadError: "/tmp/jl_3EuJal/Registry.toml": No such file

Any ideas what this might be?

[DilumAluthge]

Can you post a link to the CI log in question?

[willow-ahrens]

https://github.com/willow-ahrens/Finch.jl/actions/runs/7466596564/job/20318307592

[DilumAluthge]

Can you "retry" the failed job and see if the failure persists?

[willow-ahrens]

seems to work fine now? The issue was always intermittent, only some of the jobs would randomly fail

[DilumAluthge]

Yeah, I think the Pkg Servers were having some trouble earlier today. I'm hoping they're doing better now.

As far as what we can do in this repo (julia-buildpkg), some ideas include

1. Better error messages
2. Wrap these flaky network calls in bounded retry loops with some backoff/delay.