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

[Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ian Campbell writes ("Re: [PATCH osstest] apt: lock osstest's usages of apt-get 
against each other"):
> On Thu, 2014-04-24 at 12:18 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I think you mean this function should just pick a suitably large timeout
> for everything, rather than have no timeout at all, is that right?

Exactly.

Ian.

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