Scallywag cygwin-install-action failing in some steps Unable to connect to the remote server

[Jon Turney]

On 01/12/2024 17:05, Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> Some Scallywag job steps are failing in cygwin-install-action with 
> message "Unable to connect to the remote server".
> 
> So far only arch and noarch - both package arch and null noarch - build 
> steps have been affected - not source builds.
> 
> Summary below - full log attached - also see my recent wget2 builds 
> "pending"/"failed" with this reason:
> 
[...]
> 2024-12-01T12:20:55.2472465Z Invoke-WebRequest : Unable to connect to the remote server
> 2024-12-01T12:20:55.2473117Z At D:\a\_temp\ffa78816-f5f6-4b47-a993-27b435120c18.ps1:10 char:1
> 2024-12-01T12:20:55.2474131Z + Invoke-WebRequest https://cygwin.com/setup-$platform.exe -OutFile C:\ ...
> 2024-12-01T12:20:55.2474732Z + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 2024-12-01T12:20:55.2475223Z     + CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: (System.Net.HttpWebRequest:HttpWebRequest) [Invoke-WebRequest], WebExc
> 2024-12-01T12:20:55.2475654Z    eption
> 2024-12-01T12:20:55.2476362Z     + FullyQualifiedErrorId : WebCmdletWebResponseException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.InvokeWebRequestCommand 

Thanks for reporting this.

I'm afraid the http service on sourceware.org/cygwin.com had a little 
hiccup and was unavailable for a short while on Sunday.

Things should be back to normal now.

I'd like to make (i) cygwin-install-action more robust against such 
transient problems (See [1]), and (ii) improve scallywag so it retries 
jobs which have failed to start properly like this, but SHTDI.

[1] 
https://github.com/cygwin/cygwin-install-action/issues/9#issuecomment-2048182268