Extras build failures...

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 12:31 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 08:11 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> > I think we should bump up the timeout here, actually.  It's not a
> > problem on the builders, but an issue with the server and Extras
> > release scripts. 
> 
> Can't we just fix the locking? Surely we don't need to lock the repo for
> the _whole_ period of the upload. You can upload the new packages, then
> lock, then create metadata, then unlock. You don't need it locked for
> more than the few seconds it takes to update the metadata for the new
> packages, surely?

it takes longer than a few seconds to update the metadata.

-sv