fix: attempt to reduce variance in build times

Author: darora

ansible/vars.yml

@@ -10,9 +10,9 @@ postgres_major:
 
 # Full version strings for each major version
 postgres_release:
-  postgresorioledb-17: "17.6.0.064-orioledb-x-10"
-  postgres17: "17.6.1.107-x-10"
-  postgres15: "15.14.1.107-x-10"
+  postgresorioledb-17: "17.6.0.064-orioledb-x-11"
+  postgres17: "17.6.1.107-x-11"
+  postgres15: "15.14.1.107-x-11"
 
 # Non Postgres Extensions
 pgbouncer_release: 1.25.1

ebssurrogate/scripts/surrogate-bootstrap-nix.sh

@@ -243,6 +243,15 @@ function create_fstab {
 function setup_chroot_environment {
 	UBUNTU_VERSION=$(lsb_release -cs) # 'noble' for Ubuntu 24.04
 
+        # sometimes debootstrap will get stuck on a download for a long time
+        # the default read timeout in wget is 900s, which can cause a ~15min increase in build time
+        # this forces the process to fail-fast and retry
+	cat <<EOF > ~/.wgetrc
+read_timeout = 15
+timeout = 15
+tries = 5
+EOF
+
 	# Bootstrap Ubuntu into /mnt
 	debootstrap --arch ${ARCH} --variant=minbase "$UBUNTU_VERSION" /mnt