On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 16:55 +0200, Lubomir Kundrak wrote: > On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 15:46 +0100, José Matos wrote: > > On Wednesday 10 October 2007 15:28:26 Arthur Pemberton wrote: > > > And you don't consider that to be blocking? > > > > Cann't you wait less than 10 seconds (the worst wait time I had)? You are > > really a busy person. ;-) > > Now do a reasonable F-7 desktop installation, and then see if it would > be less than 10 seconds even if you have a moderately fast internet > connection. And imaging that you are a newbie and have no idea what > blocks what and how long would it take, and whether it will ever > unblock. > If the transaction is being performed what alternative do you have? reading from the rpmdb while a transaction is occurring is possible you just won't be able to rely on the results as 'correct' Now, if you're talking about grabbing a new copy of the metadata then what we've put on the 'future' todo list is downloading he metadata to a tmpdir, checking it out and putting it in place once its correct, however, that's a bit racy b/c you end up with the potential for 2 or more processes to want to write to the same location with, potentially different data. -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
