[python-committers] Azure Pipelines Linux failures on PRs

Steve Dower steve.dower at python.org
Thu Sep 20 11:34:52 EDT 2018


Hi all

Just a heads-up that the Azure Pipelines build failures for Linux 
machines are a known issue that should be fixed by the end of the week.

It seems the service has become so popular since last week's 
announcements that many more builds are being run on machines that have 
been freshly imaged, and so they are racing with a background 'apt 
update' command. This causes an explicit 'apt update' to (correctly) 
fail to acquire its lock. I believe it's also related to the move from 
running builds within Docker containers to actual VMs, which happened 
around the same time.

Until it's fixed, feel free to ignore the Azure Pipelines status for 
Linux builds. Apologies for the inconvenience with backports not 
auto-merging.

Cheers,
Steve


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