On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 20:01 +0200, Christoph Höger wrote: > Hi, > > what does yum make requiring a global lock for _every_ operation as > root? I can search/info/download as normal user, while updating the > system but not as root. Why that? B/c none of the /var/cache/yum dir is writable as a user. But as root it is all writable. Changing the metadata while another yum operation is going on will result in unpredictable results. > Why do we need to lock yum for more than rpm transactions (shouldn't rpm > do that at all) and cache write operations? b/c we write out other data. -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
