Downloading buildifier binary in CI sometimes fails

[seungduk-yanolja]

The download URL is specified as like this: https://github.com/bazelbuild/buildtools/releases/download/$version/$filename
Not sure if this URL is stable. Please see the following.
community/community#8535
The error message was,

buildifier...............................................................Failed

- hook id: buildifier

- exit code: 1



error: failed to download buildifier



script returned exit code 1

[seungduk-yanolja]

Looks like it was a temporary issue. However, can we set the repo of the binary as an argument instead?

[keith]

it should be stable after that revert, but yea if you want to accept an arg for this i'd be happy to accept PRs!

[louwers]

Ran into this as well. My workaround was to skip buildifier on CI for now.

https://results.pre-commit.ci/run/github/314553426/1683968491.-gwlEE0eRPK-JDTGk5y_uQ