From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: <gentoo-dev-return-15424-arch-gentoo-dev=gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org> Received: (qmail 796 invoked from network); 1 Sep 2004 20:24:48 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 1 Sep 2004 20:24:48 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C2bey-0004OS-Bn for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 01 Sep 2004 20:24:48 +0000 Received: (qmail 26773 invoked by uid 89); 1 Sep 2004 20:24:47 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-dev@gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev-unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev-subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-dev.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 1252 invoked from network); 1 Sep 2004 20:24:47 +0000 Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 21:21:44 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@gentoo.org> To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Message-ID: <20040901212144.1d18b048@snowdrop.home> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 0.9.12a (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="pgp-sha1"; boundary="Signature=_Wed__1_Sep_2004_21_21_44_+0100_7N4b+WfUFfkFzWY1" Subject: [gentoo-dev] rfc: epause instead of sleep in ebuilds X-Archives-Salt: b1648442-c0bb-4b3a-b8de-651e388f5b5d X-Archives-Hash: 32991f4aa0ffcf0a7ad6190710b1d159 --Signature=_Wed__1_Sep_2004_21_21_44_+0100_7N4b+WfUFfkFzWY1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Currently, we have something like 200 ebuilds which call 'sleep'. How would people feel about replacing this with an eutils function called 'epause' (or 'esleep', or 'ezzz', or esitaroundforabit)? This would give us two advantages: * For non-interactive builds (eg catalyst, chroot testing), an environment variable could be set which makes epause not actually pause. For certain packages on certain systems, the sleep takes longer than the rest of the build... * The behaviour of sleep isn't entirely standardised across different UNIX implementations. It would be better to have one place to make any changes needed by these new non-Linuxy platforms. I'd suggest an implementation along the following lines: # Wait for the supplied number of seconds. If no argument is supplied, # defaults to five seconds. If the EPAUSE_IGNORE env var is set, don't # wait. epause() { if [ -z "$EPAUSE_IGNORE" ] ; then sleep ${1:-5} fi } Thoughts? I'd be happy to do all the work :) -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Sparc, MIPS, Vim, Fluxbox) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm --Signature=_Wed__1_Sep_2004_21_21_44_+0100_7N4b+WfUFfkFzWY1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBNi9a96zL6DUtXhERAhxdAJ9tsw4wuT0ljUxDY5z8X5RjbtgLEQCgsonm WSMsojX1pEqmDSOtpyXdUe4= =TGd0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature=_Wed__1_Sep_2004_21_21_44_+0100_7N4b+WfUFfkFzWY1--