feature request: mock --timeout

[Matt Domsch]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 03:25:21PM +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 07:50:15AM -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
> > I'd like to make a feature request for mock: the ability for it to
> > determine a job has taken too long and kill it.  mock --timeout N (with N
> > in minutes) is the UI I'm picturing.
> > 
> > 
> > I've been doing these mass rebuilds for a while.  Every so often we'll
> > wind up with a package with the halting problem - it continues to run,
> > or not, but it doesn't ever finish building either.  Ever.  Several
> > days later, it's still going, but not making progress.
> > 
> > Sure, some jobs, like the kernel, openoffice, glibc, etc. can take a
> > good number of hours.  But even those don't run for days.  The latest
> > culprits was a few perl modules that ran for >2 days with no end in
> > sight.
> 
> Did you find out why it was not ending? Was it a package bug?

It's usually not a packaging bug, but a package bug. :-)

The perl 'make test' routines are the usual culprits.


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