Commits on Apr 24, 2024

1. GH Actions: work around intermittent apt-get errors …

   Okay, so apparently, there is a long-standing bug in the Microsoft package deploy process which caused `apt-get update` to fail in the first half hour after Microsoft has deployed a package.
   
   The failure looks like this:
   ```
   E: Failed to fetch https://packages.microsoft.com/ubuntu/22.04/prod/dists/jammy/InRelease  Clearsigned file isn't valid, got 'NOSPLIT' (does the network require authentication?)
   ```
   
   As this only happens intermittently (after a MS package deploy), the chance of running into this bug are slim, but guess what: today I ran into it.
   
   This change to the workflow is intended to prevent the next person running into this issue from having to waste time on figuring this out.
   
   By splitting the "Install xmllint" step into two steps: one doing the `apt-get update` and one doing the actual install and making the first step one which is allowed to `continue-on-error`, this issue should hopefully not crop up anymore.
   
   Any errors in the `apt-get update` step will now be ignored and as most errors which could potentially come from that step are irrelevant for the rest of the job anyway, this is fine.
   If a relevant error would be surfaced, the next step (the xmllint install), will fail the job anyway.
   
   Refs:
   * actions/runner-images#3410
   * dotnet/core#4167

   

   jrfnl committed Apr 24, 2024
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