ci: fetch apt indexes over HTTPS so the install step stops hanging
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The "Install system libraries" step was stalling indefinitely. It was not
deadlocked on a config prompt and not slow-but-progressing: measured inside the
live runner container, /var/cache/apt/archives stayed at 0 .deb files after 3+
minutes, with apt's http workers parked in S state waiting on the network.

Root cause is the http:// mirror path being pathologically slow from this
runner, not broken. Measured 2026-08-04 from inside the CI container, same
index file, back to back:

  http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/Release   20.1s
  https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/Release    3.1s

apt fetches many indexes serially, so ~20s apiece compounds into what looks
like a hang. Rewriting the deb822 sources to https makes the step complete.

Verified before committing, in the running CI container (rocker/r-ver:4.4):
- ca-certificates present and apt 2.8.3 ships the https method built in, so
  nothing has to be installed over http first to bootstrap TLS
- the sed rewrites both URIs (archive + security); the only remaining http://
  is an inert comment line
- '#' is used as the sed delimiter deliberately: '|' collides with the
  alternation and fails with "unknown option to `s'"
- the regex survives YAML block-scalar parsing with backslashes intact

`|| true` guards each sed because the step runs under `sh -e`, so a
missing-sources-file on some other base image must not kill the job.
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2026-08-04 11:57:49 -04:00
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commit 342debaefa
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@@ -11,6 +11,21 @@ jobs:
steps:
- name: Install system libraries and Node.js (required by actions/checkout)
run: |
# Switch apt to HTTPS mirrors. Measured from this runner on
# 2026-08-04: the SAME index file takes 20.1s over http:// and 3.1s
# over https://. apt fetches many indexes serially, so http:// does
# not read as "slow" -- it reads as a hang (zero bytes in
# /var/cache/apt/archives after 3+ minutes, apt's http workers parked
# in S state). rocker/r-ver:4.4 already ships ca-certificates and
# apt 2.8.3 has the https method built in, so nothing needs to be
# installed over http first to bootstrap this.
# `|| true` because the step runs under `sh -e`: on an image whose
# sources live in the other location, the missing-file sed must not
# kill the job.
sed -i -E 's#http://(archive|security)\.ubuntu\.com#https://\1.ubuntu.com#g' \
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu.sources 2>/dev/null || true
sed -i -E 's#http://(archive|security)\.ubuntu\.com#https://\1.ubuntu.com#g' \
/etc/apt/sources.list 2>/dev/null || true
apt-get update -qq
apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
nodejs git \