On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 16:20 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > On 10/9/07, Jeremy Katz <katzj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 15:52 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > > > 1) Does yum-updatesd still block yum and piruit? Causes newbies some headaches. > > > > You can't have multiple things doing transactions at the same time. It > > just _can't_ be guaranteed to work. Both yum and pirut should now let > > you easily retry (or exit out). Also, the main reason things were > > getting blocked was deadlocking of yum-updatesd in threading land. This > > can't really happen now. > > Forgive my ignorance, but is it not possible to have yum work in > essentially a read-only mode which would allow checking for updates... > but would _not_ block other applications> No, because we change out repodata in place. Which would mean that you could get a very inconsistent view if you didn't listen to the lock. > > > 3) Is there a silent download, interactive install mode? > > > > Yep, just like always. But should be more reliable now. > > Cool. I take it RFEs on the interface are welcome? Yep! Bugzilla against yum-updatesd for the daemon side, pirut for the UI Jeremy -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
