This works great thanks. ill add this to the debian wiki page.

On Sun, 17 Nov 2024, 17:20 Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues, <
jo...@debian.org> wrote:

> 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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