Would you be interested in making it more fine-grained at all? As its python I basically _could_ do some work. Am Dienstag, den 21.10.2008, 14:37 -0400 schrieb seth vidal: > 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
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil
-- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
