From 270024aaad4973300aff10a39564769701cd7236 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: sideshowbarker <mike@w3.org>
Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2026 16:43:16 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] Meta: Retry the vcpkg bootstrap to ride out transient
 download failures
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Problem: CI jobs were very often failing at the install-vcpkg step,
after the prebuilt-vcpkg-tool download fails with an HTTP 504.

Cause: The bootstrap-vcpkg.sh script’s curl call retries span only a few
seconds — too soon to get past an outage — and the build_vcpkg.py script
runs with no retry at all. So one transient 504 hard-fails everything.

Fix: Do the bootstrap in build_vcpkg.py with retries and some backoff —
so one transient download failure no longer breaks the entire build.
---
 Meta/Utils/build_vcpkg.py | 16 +++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Meta/Utils/build_vcpkg.py b/Meta/Utils/build_vcpkg.py
index 3cc999c396..5987b7fe42 100755
--- a/Meta/Utils/build_vcpkg.py
+++ b/Meta/Utils/build_vcpkg.py
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import json
 import pathlib
 import subprocess
 import sys
+import time
 
 META_SOURCE_DIR = pathlib.Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent
 LADYBIRD_SOURCE_DIR = META_SOURCE_DIR.parent
@@ -53,7 +54,20 @@ def build_vcpkg():
     if platform.libc_name() == "musl":
         arguments.append("-musl")
 
-    subprocess.check_call(args=arguments, cwd=vcpkg_checkout)
+    max_attempts = 3
+    for attempt in range(1, max_attempts + 1):
+        try:
+            subprocess.check_call(args=arguments, cwd=vcpkg_checkout)
+            return
+        except subprocess.CalledProcessError:
+            if attempt == max_attempts:
+                raise
+            delay_seconds = 15 * attempt
+            print(
+                f"vcpkg bootstrap failed (attempt {attempt}); retrying in {delay_seconds}s",
+                file=sys.stderr,
+            )
+            time.sleep(delay_seconds)
 
 
 def main():