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Add ability to handle Internet connection failures

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Project
craft-parts
Number
#1189
Type
issue
State
open
Author
ofry
Labels
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Closed
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Current evaluation

Feature request to add a retry option for failed network downloads (e.g. unexpected EOF on unstable connections). Unlabelled, 0 comments, no maintainer response; related snapcraft#5642 was closed and redirected here as the proper home.

Suggested action: needs triage

Reason: The issue has no labels, no assignee, and zero comments, showing no maintainer has assessed it, so it needs triage. It is not stale-irrelevant: the referenced snapcraft#5642 was explicitly closed and redirected to craft-parts as the correct home, and no retry logic exists in the download path (url_utils.download_request just iterates content with no retry).

Impact: 45 Quick Win: 18.0 Staleness: 72 Complexity: 60 Confidence: 78 Support Request: 15

Issue body

### What needs to get done It's related to https://github.com/canonical/snapcraft/issues/5642 Could you add new configuration option, CLI option, etc. which add ability to retry failed command pre-defined number of tries? I want to exclude scenario: ``` snapcraft ``` See failing when connection suddenly closed when downloading any file related to project (unexpected EOF or such). Then immediately I should: ``` snapcraft ``` etc. ### Why it needs to get done It will greatly improve the usability when the user has unstable Internet connection.

Evaluation history

Date Model Scores Action Summary
qwen/qwen3.8-27b
Impact: 45
Quick Win: 18.0
Staleness: 72
Complexity: 60
Confidence: 78
Support Request: 15
needs triage Feature request to add a retry option for failed network downloads (e.g. unexpected EOF on unstable connections). Unlabelled, 0 comments, no maintainer response; related snapcraft#5642 was closed and redirected here as the proper home.
qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b
Staleness: 85
Complexity: 45
Confidence: 75
Support Request: 10
needs triage Feature request to add a configurable retry mechanism for network downloads to handle unstable connections. Unlabelled, zero maintainer comments, and inactive for over a year.
qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6
Staleness: 90
Complexity: 45
Confidence: 80
Support Request: 10
needs triage Request for a retry mechanism on network failures during downloads to improve usability on unstable connections. Untriaged, no maintainer response, inactive for nearly a year.
qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6
Staleness: 80
Complexity: 45
Confidence: 85
Support Request: 10
needs triage Proposes configurable retry logic for network failures during downloads to handle unstable connections. Unassigned, zero comments, inactive for 329 days. Requires triage and assignment to proceed.

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Related work

  • Related To: canonical/snapcraft#5642 (confidence 90%)

    Referenced in the issue body; closed and redirected to craft-parts as the proper place for network retry logic.

  • Related To: canonical/craft-parts#1533 (confidence 55%)

    Commit 'fix(sources): handle streaming request errors' addresses related network-error handling in sources but does not add a retry option.

Related issues

Issue Project State Summary Similarity
#5642 Add ability (opt-in) to handle Internet connection failures snapcraft closed Closed and redirected to the craft-parts repository. Maintainers recommend implementing network retry logic directly in craft-parts rather than adding a snapcraft-level opt-in flag. A new issue should be opened there.
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