Vadim Nasardinov writes: > On Friday 11 March 2005 05:02, Andrew Haley wrote: > > The right technique is to copy the old file to a new one, add to the > > new one, and then rename it. > > Do we have a mechanism in place to enforce serialization of two or > more concurrent attempts to apply this technique? No. You'd have to be trying to install two packages simultaneously for this to happen. Don't Do That. Andrew.