Spack's default timeout is too short #14700
Description
Spack occasionally aborts a fetch too early when a url source is too slow. I ran into this issue with util-macros on a busy night.
Steps to reproduce the issue
$ spack install util-macrosSteps that resolved the issue (workaround)
I edited spack/lib/spack/spack/fetch_strategy.py to increase the timeout to 1 minute from 10 seconds. Ideally this should be configurable.
Error Message
==> Installing util-macros
==> Searching for binary cache of util-macros
==> No binary for util-macros found: installing from source
==> Fetching https://www.x.org/archive/individual/util/util-macros-1.19.1.tar.bz2
curl: (28) Operation timed out after 10001 milliseconds with 0 out of 0 bytes received
==> Failed to fetch file from URL: https://www.x.org/archive/individual/util/util-macros-1.19.1.tar.bz2
Curl failed with error 28
==> Fetching from https://www.x.org/archive/individual/util/util-macros-1.19.1.tar.bz2 failed.
==> Error: FetchError: All fetchers failed for spack-stage-util-macros-1.19.1-3khni2zc7qm6ruqeot3pbstb2lb36uhd
/blues/gpfs/home/underwoo/git/spack/lib/spack/spack/package.py:1110, in do_fetch:
1107 raise FetchError("Will not fetch %s" %
1108 self.spec.format('{name}{@version}'), ck_msg)
1109
>> 1110 self.stage.create()
1111 self.stage.fetch(mirror_only)
1112 self._fetch_time = time.time() - start_time
1113Information on your system
I ran this on ANL's bebop, but also replicated it on Clemson's palmetto using spack's default configuration.