[WHIRR-528] Add a retry loop around apt-get and yum commands to overcome transient errors

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.8.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.8.0
• Assignee: Adrian Cole (Inactive)
• Reporter: Andrei Savu
• Created: 23/Feb/12 18:26
• Updated: 06/Aug/12 01:03
• Resolved: 06/Aug/12 01:03

Description

We've done something like this already in WHIRR-517 for 0.7.1 (hotfix release). We need to do the same for trunk but also refactor the code to avoid code duplication.

Issue Links

• blocks: WHIRR-612 CDH4 can be installed on Ubuntu now as well as CentOS
• is blocked by: WHIRR-613 OpenJDK JAVA_HOME detection needs to be improved
• is related to: WHIRR-517 Add a retry loop around apt-get and yum commands to overcome transient errors