Automatic retries of hooks

[roger peppe]

On 20 January 2016 at 12:20, Martin Packman
<martin.packman at canonical.com> wrote:
> Another common error we see in CI is apt mirrors being unhappy leading
> to hook failures. Just retry later does tend to be the right option
> there, though it will often be an our or two until the archive is in a
> usable state again.
>
> On 20/01/2016, William Reade <william.reade at canonical.com> wrote:
>>
>> Are there any concerns that I've missed?
>
> Automatic retries make debugging your charm harder, as James found. I
> think we want an environment setting to disable this for both testing
> and for charm authors.

This seems like a good idea.
Also perhaps it wouldn't be so bad if you at least were able
to find some record of the hook failures without delving into the
logs.