On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 12:50:11PM -0500, Clark Williams wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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. > > > > File an RFE BZ on it and I'll look at it.
I have some python code from another project that does exactly this. I can drop it in. I'll send a patch for review. -- Michael -- Fedora-buildsys-list mailing list Fedora-buildsys-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-buildsys-list
