feature request: mock --timeout

[Axel Thimm]

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?

> Thanks,
> Matt
> 
> 

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Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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