colcon bundle is intermittently failing to fetch apt packages

[ojasjoshi]

Description

• colcon bundle is intermittently failing to fetch apt packages in Travis CI build tests for Cloudwatch Sample Apps for both ROS1/ROS2 branches.
• the frequency of the build failure resulting from this issue is 1 to 3 times a week
• the first build failure occurred about ~1.5 months ago and has been occurring intermittently since then
• build gets fixed by itself

Error Messages

ERROR:colcon.colcon_bundle.verb:Could not fetch from repositories: W:Skipping acquire of configured file 'main/binary-i386/Packages' as repository 'http://packages.ros.org/ros2/ubuntu bionic InRelease' doesn't support architecture 'i386', E:Failed to fetch http://mirror.enzu.com/ubuntu/dists/bionic-security/multiverse/binary-i386/Packages.xz  Hash Sum mismatch

or

ERROR:colcon.colcon_bundle.verb:Could not fetch from repositories: W:Skipping acquire of configured file 'main/binary-i386/Packages' as repository 'http://packages.ros.org/ros2/ubuntu bionic InRelease' doesn't support architecture 'i386', E:Failed to fetch http://mirror.enzu.com/ubuntu/dists/bionic-security/multiverse/source/Sources.gz  Hash Sum mismatch

or

 ERROR:colcon:colcon bundle: Failed to fetch http://ubuntu.mirrors.pair.com/archive/pool/universe/libz/libzip/libzip-dev_1.1.2-1.1_amd64.deb Hash Sum mismatch

[dabonnie]

Hi @ojasjoshi, with release 24 we've added apt retries. Please let us know if you continue to see flakiness with this release.

[emersonknapp]

Closing for now, please reopen if issue reappears