@@ -460,6 +460,17 @@ function is_ubuntu {

 # Git Functions

 # =============

+# Returns openstack release name for a given branch name

+# ``get_release_name_from_branch branch-name``

+function get_release_name_from_branch(){

+    local branch=$1

+    if [[ $branch =~ "stable/" ]]; then

+        echo ${branch#*/}

+    else

+        echo "master"

+    fi

+}

+

 # git clone only if directory doesn't exist already.  Since ``DEST`` might not

 # be owned by the installation user, we create the directory and change the

 # ownership to the proper user.

@@ -792,7 +803,9 @@ function get_packages() {

 # install_package package [package ...]

 function install_package() {

     if is_ubuntu; then

-        [[ "$NO_UPDATE_REPOS" = "True" ]] || apt_get update

+        # if there are transient errors pulling the updates, that's fine. It may

+        # be secondary repositories that we don't really care about.

+        [[ "$NO_UPDATE_REPOS" = "True" ]] || apt_get update || /bin/true

         NO_UPDATE_REPOS=True

         apt_get install "$@"