Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH osstest] apt: lock osstest's usages of apt-get against each other

[Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ian Campbell writes ("[PATCH osstest] apt: lock osstest's usages of apt-get 
against each other"):
> From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Currently we rely on all apt-get invocations being in a single
> ts-xen-build-prep job which can't run on a shared host.
...
> @@ -430,17 +430,18 @@ sub target_putfile_root ($$$$;$) {
>  sub target_run_apt {
>      my ($ho, $timeout, @aptopts) = @_;

I think this needs to lose the timeout option completely.  If some new
caller were to come along and call "apt-get moo", it ought not to be
expected to pass a timeout.  If it did it would pass 30, one would
expect, but of course it might end up blocked behind a long run.

Ian.

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