Hi, Quoting John Paul Adrian Glaubitz (2016-10-12 15:49:43) > This bug is talking about the actual upload process during which the > buildd-uploader.lock lock file is created. The .upload files are not created > by buildd-uploader but dupload which creates them after every single upload > is done. > > The buildd-uploader.lock lock file, on the other hand, is not removed until > buildd-uploader has finished uploading all packages in the upload queue. > > Fixing this (#826942) bug means that a buildd crashing while running > buildd-uploader will not suffer from buildd-uploader locking up on next run > in case the lock file from the last run has not been removed. > > Fixing the other bug (#577421) will avoid running into problems with the > upload queue after a package has been given back and buildd-uploader tries to > upload the same version after a second build on the same buildd. I haven't > run into this issue myself yet, though it might be a good idea to address it. > I think this issue only occurs in the rare case where a package was uploaded > successfully but is stuck in the "Uploaded" state for some reason so that the > buildd-mail process is not removing the files from the upload folder.
thanks for the explanation! Things are much clearer now. Unfortunately, even though I seem to be the currently most active team member, I really have little to no clue about the buildd part of sbuild. So if you have a patch, then that would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! cheers, josch
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