Limit and retry the module download in the Docker build (closes #351)
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Each `go mod download` in the Dockerfile now runs under a five-minute
time limit and is tried up to three times. Without a limit, a stalled
connection to the module proxy held the step, and every build on the
host sharing it, until the kernel dropped the connection. Five minutes
is well above the three minutes a working download can take on a busy
build host. When all three attempts fail, the step prints "module
download failed" and exits 1, so the build stops there instead of
failing as a test or lint failure. A test checks every download step
for the limit, the retries, the message and the final `exit 1`.

Model: opus-5-5
This commit was merged in pull request #354.
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2026-10-13 21:11:11 +02:00
parent 3361e9ebd9
commit 25ee9211d3
2 changed files with 69 additions and 3 deletions
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@@ -5,7 +5,16 @@
FROM golangci/golangci-lint:v2.14.0@sha256:ad862ba6b3798cbe0fd9fd7408d498fd74fbd2623a92406b2fd3898faf0bf98f AS lint
WORKDIR /src
COPY go.mod go.sum ./
RUN go mod download
# Without the time limit a stalled connection to the module proxy holds
# this step, and every build on the host sharing it, until the kernel
# drops the connection, which can take an hour. The limit is well above
# the three minutes a working download can take on a busy build host.
RUN for attempt in 1 2 3; do \
timeout 300 go mod download && exit 0; \
echo "go mod download attempt $attempt failed or ran over 300s" >&2; \
done; \
echo "module download failed: giving up after 3 attempts" >&2; \
exit 1
COPY . .
# `golangci-lint run` silently ignores an unknown top-level key in
# .golangci.yml, such as a misspelt `linters:`; `config verify` fails on it.
@@ -18,7 +27,13 @@ RUN golangci-lint run --config .golangci.yml ./...
FROM golang:1.26.1@sha256:cd78d88e00afadbedd272f977d375a6247455f3a4b1178f8ae8bbcb201743a8a AS test
WORKDIR /src
COPY go.mod go.sum ./
RUN go mod download
# Limited and retried as in the lint phase above.
RUN for attempt in 1 2 3; do \
timeout 300 go mod download && exit 0; \
echo "go mod download attempt $attempt failed or ran over 300s" >&2; \
done; \
echo "module download failed: giving up after 3 attempts" >&2; \
exit 1
COPY . .
RUN go test -timeout 90s -race -cover ./... || \
{ echo "--- Rerunning with -v for details ---"; \
@@ -36,7 +51,13 @@ RUN apk add --no-cache git
RUN git config --system --add safe.directory /src
WORKDIR /src
COPY go.mod go.sum ./
RUN go mod download
# Limited and retried as in the lint phase above.
RUN for attempt in 1 2 3; do \
timeout 300 go mod download && exit 0; \
echo "go mod download attempt $attempt failed or ran over 300s" >&2; \
done; \
echo "module download failed: giving up after 3 attempts" >&2; \
exit 1
COPY . .
# The VERSION build arg when one is given, otherwise
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package main_test
import (
"strings"
"testing"
"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
)
// TestDockerfileBoundsEveryModuleDownload fails unless every
// `go mod download` in the Dockerfile runs under a time limit, is tried
// a fixed number of times, and then fails the build with a message that
// names the module download (issue #351). Like the version tests, this
// parses the Dockerfile; that a stalled download really is cut off and
// retried was checked by hand.
func TestDockerfileBoundsEveryModuleDownload(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()
var downloads []string
for _, instruction := range instructions(t, productDockerfile) {
if strings.Contains(instruction, "go mod download") {
downloads = append(downloads, instruction)
}
}
require.NotEmpty(t, downloads, "%s must download modules",
productDockerfile)
for _, download := range downloads {
assert.Contains(t, download, "timeout 300 go mod download",
"%s: a module download must have a time limit: %s",
productDockerfile, download)
assert.Contains(t, download, "for attempt in 1 2 3",
"%s: a module download must be retried: %s",
productDockerfile, download)
assert.Contains(t, download, "module download failed",
"%s: a module download that never succeeds must say so: %s",
productDockerfile, download)
assert.True(t, strings.HasSuffix(download, "exit 1"),
"%s: a module download that never succeeds must fail the"+
" build: %s", productDockerfile, download)
}
}