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[–] abraxas@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Isn't that the definition of a race condition, though? In this case, the builds are racing and your success is tied to the builds happening to happen at the right times.

Or do you mean "builds 1 and 2 kick off at the same time, but build 1 fails unless build 2 is done. If you run it twice, build 2 does "no change" and you're fine"?

Then that's legit.

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago

Yup, it’s that second one. 0% chance of success until all dependencies are built, then the final run has a 100% chance to work.