The e2e job overwrote the runner's sources.list with two azure-only lines and
installed fuse from it, so the same mirror outage that took out the image
builds failed the step outright - this time on the runner rather than inside
the container, where the image-side fallback cannot reach.
Install through the same helper, and widen its rewrite to match any archive
host so it works whether the pristine list came from the base image
(archive.ubuntu.com) or from a CI runner (azure.archive.ubuntu.com). Keeping
the runner's original list also restores the security and backports pockets,
which the hand-written two-line replacement dropped.
Verified against the outage itself: with the pristine list pointed at Azure,
the build logged the skip after Azure timed out for real and installed from
archive.ubuntu.com.
The e2e image pointed both archive and security at azure.archive.ubuntu.com and
nothing else, and the samba and pjdfstest images inherit that list. When Azure
is unreachable the build has nowhere to go: Acquire::Retries just retries a dead
host, every package fails, and apt exits 100 before a single test runs. Two
different workflows lost runs to it tonight.
Install through a helper that starts from the pristine sources.list each time
and walks a list of mirrors, so Azure stays the preferred one - the reason it
was pinned in the first place - without being the only one.
Verified both paths against a real build: the normal one installs from Azure,
and with the first entry pointed at an unroutable host the fallback logs the
skip and installs from archive.ubuntu.com.
Chris LuandGitHub