Bug#1087692: sbuild: provide a way to apply a timeout to piuparts and autopkgtests

[Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues]

Hi Richard,

Quoting Richard Lewis (2024-11-17 11:43:11)
> $stalled_pkg_timeout terminates the build after inactivity, but it would be
> nice if there was an equivalent for the use of piuparts (--run-piuparts) or
> (--run-autopkgtests)
> 
> Especially with piuparts it is easy to start a build, and it will be hang
> waiting for a sudo password
> 
> The documentation in sbuild.conf says this is based on writes to the build
> log, but this does not include writes from piuparts or autopkgtests
> 
> I tried
>   $piuparts_root_args=['timeout', '20m', 'sudo', '--'];
> but it did not kill the sudo call

from timeout(1):

   --foreground
          when not running timeout directly from a shell prompt,
          allow COMMAND to read from the TTY and get TTY signals;,

Did you try running timeout with the --foreground option?

Thanks!

cheers, josch

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