[tahoe-lafs-trac-stream] [tahoe-lafs] #1753: build can hang while trying to find dependencies

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#1753: build can hang while trying to find dependencies
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     Reporter:  davidsarah  |      Owner:
         Type:  defect      |     Status:  new
     Priority:  normal      |  Milestone:  undecided
    Component:  packaging   |    Version:  1.9.1
   Resolution:              |   Keywords:  build setuptools hang
Launchpad Bug:              |
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Old description:

> {{{
> $ python setup.py test
> [...]
> Searching for pycryptopp>=0.6.0
> Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/pycryptopp/
> Reading http://allmydata.org/trac/pycryptopp
> Reading http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/pycryptopp
> Reading http://allmydata.org/source/pycryptopp
> Reading http://allmydata.org/source/zfec
> [hangs for ~20 minutes]
> ^C^Cinterrupted
> }}}
>
> I don't know whether it is significant that it was trying to connect to
> allmydata.org; that resolves to the same IP as tahoe-lafs.org, so it
> should be harmless. Anyway, if there is no timeout then that is very
> broken.

New description:

 {{{
 $ python setup.py test
 [...]
 Searching for pycryptopp>=0.6.0
 Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/pycryptopp/
 Reading http://allmydata.org/trac/pycryptopp
 Reading http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/pycryptopp
 Reading http://allmydata.org/source/pycryptopp
 Reading http://allmydata.org/source/zfec
 [hangs for ~20 minutes]
 ^C^Cinterrupted
 }}}

 I don't know whether it is significant that it was trying to connect to
 allmydata.org; that resolves to the same IP as tahoe-lafs.org, so it
 should be harmless. Anyway, if there is no timeout then that is very
 broken.

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Comment (by zooko):

 dstufft says that pip has timeouts for this.

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