Re: [bitbake-devel] [PATCH] cooker: limit the execution of the hashequiv client/server ping

Hi,

On Thu Apr 23, 2026 at 12:29 PM CEST, Corentin Guillevic via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> From: Corentin Guillevic <[email protected]>
>
> The ping method is used to test the connection to the hash equivalence server.
> However, if the server is unavailable, the bitbake server has to wait several
> minutes for the system to terminate.
>
> While waiting for a response from the hash server, the bitbake server does not
> provide any feedback to the bitbake client. The latter then closes the link and
> fails with the error:
>
> Timeout while waiting for a reply from the bitbake server (60s at 09:50:15.377337)
>
> Adding a timeout to the ping step allows quicker action when a remote server is
> unavailable, and prevents disconnection of the client due to timeout.
> The default timeout is 10 seconds, but this can be set using the
> BB_HASHSERVER_TIMEOUT variable.

Can you please document this new variable in
doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-ref-variables.rst in the same
commit?

Thanks,
Antonin