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elliotweiser / ansible-osx-command-line-tools

An Ansible role for installing OS X Command Line Tools
https://galaxy.ansible.com/elliotweiser/osx-command-line-tools/
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Check for Command Line Tools in Software Update list hangs occasionally #18

Closed lawrence-c closed 5 years ago

lawrence-c commented 6 years ago

It seems that the step Check for Command Line Tools in Software Update list occasionally hangs and therefore breaks the build.

Could be something to do with this? https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/82551/mac-app-store-update-stuck-installing-calculating

Is there anyway I can work around this, perhaps by adding a retry after x time?

Linked from https://github.com/geerlingguy/ansible-role-homebrew/issues/86

elliotweiser commented 6 years ago

@SurferL What are your Mac OS and Ansible versions?

That's an interesting suggestion/observation re: the stack exchange post. I can start digging into that.

You're welcome to add a retry feature to help mitigate some of your build time woes. I'll look into it myself as well at some point, but I can't make any promises as to when that'll be. If you'd like to propose a PR for adding that feature, I'll review it.

lawrence-c commented 6 years ago

Hey @elliotweiser ,

I'm using macOS Sierra Version 10.12.6, and Ansible version 2.4.1.0

I was thinking of using a retry feature but wasn't sure how to do it just yet

elliotweiser commented 5 years ago

@SurferL Out of curiosity, does this still happen for you? I haven't seen this happen in a LONG time.

lawrence-c commented 5 years ago

Hey, yeah I haven't seen it for a long time either now (and still use the same playbooks once in a while), not too sure why it's gone away tbh ¯_(ツ)_/¯

elliotweiser commented 5 years ago

Since this hasn't been a problem for some time, I'm going to close this. I was experimenting with timeouts before, but the level of effort didn't seem to justify the feature. Plus we can't control the performance/reliability of Apple's softwareupdate servers.

Feel free to ping me if you think this issue has re-surfaced.