[Repronim-trd3] Odd mongodb package error in niceman travis-ci (temporary?)

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

On Thu, 11 Jan 2018, Robert Buccigrossi wrote:

> The pain of external dependencies. While trying to diagnose codecov
> weirdness, all my niceman travis-ci jobs are failing (including those that
> used to work).  It appears to be an error running
> http://neuro.debian.net/_files/neurodebian-travis.sh, but the failure is
> caused by an empty mongodb.org Package file:

> E: Failed to fetch
> store:/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/repo.mongodb.org_apt_ubuntu_dists_trusty_mongodb-org_3.4_multiverse_binary-i386_Packages
> Empty files can't be valid archives
> E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones
> used instead.

> The command "bash <(wget -q -O-
> http://neuro.debian.net/_files/neurodebian-travis.sh)" failed and exited
> with 100 during .

> Your build has been stopped.

I do dislike how travis environments add a number of APT sources to a
variety of projects we (as well as probably majority) of people do not
care about, and do not just mirror/cache them to guarantee that they are
actually available. Failure to reach any of them leads to such errors.

> Any suggestions?  Maybe we should remove the "e" in "set -xe" in the
> neurodebian-travis.sh script?  I'll do other stuff and try again later.

then we might miss the moment when something actually does not work in
that script as expected and errors out.  I would prefer to keep it that
way.  As a remedy I am trying now

sed -i -e '/mongodb/d' /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*list

not sure if that would help but imho worth trying -- pushed into your
PR.  If doesn't help, we will just happily reset --hard and push --force
to bring it into original not working state

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