Re: [PATCHv3] dpkg-base: derive "Package" and "Architecture" from .deb in cleanup

[Baurzhan Ismagulov <ibr@radix50.net>]

On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 02:10:01PM +0200, Henning Schild wrote:
> I think we are still talking about writing style and wording of the
> commit message. No finger pointing was ever intended or even remotely
> thought about. I just said "you" to the anonymous reader of the commit
> message.

Ok, thanks for clarification. Yes, I'm talking about the wording that doesn't
leave room for misinterpretation.


> Did you succeed?

I've encountered qemu issues and haven't looked further, sorry. I need to solve
that first.


> We lock it for writes and assume that reads will happen after the repo
> is complete. Because an image depends on all recipes to deploy.
> In a multiconfig setup a writer (recipe deploy/clean) can remove
> packages that a reader (image bootstrap) needs.
> i.e. all arm64 recipes have deployed their debs and arm64 image
> bootstrap starts, during that bootstrap an x86 recipe deploy removes
> an "all" deb that the bootstrap needs ... deb missing ... press the
> jenkins build button again better luck next time

Thanks, now I get it. Readers must be also serialized against writers.


With kind regards,
Baurzhan.