On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 14:12, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Sunday 06 April 2003 01:19, Klaasjan Brand uttered: > > So? All apt does is fork an "rpm -Uvh" process for the app it wants to > > install. And yes, it's happened to me in both cases. > > Blink, you sure about that? Last time I looked at apt, it did not pass things > off to the /usr/bin/rpm binary, and instead tried to use the rpm libs itself. > Have they fixed this yet? > Unless I'm mistaken apt has always passed things to the rpm binary. To be clear I've run into the same locking situation in yum on occasion and yum is using the identical method that up2date and anaconda is using for interacting with the rpmdb. To be clear it can occur but it should occur less often. now. -sv
