On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 07:00:39AM -0400, Jeff Johnson wrote: > > The difference between what a "user does" and how long an asynchronous > scriptlet waits before attempting to install should be obvious. > > There is no way to choose the N in "sleep N" accurately, any chosen > value will fail to > wait long enough for a sufficiently large transaction to finish. > That's what is hacky. What I was suggesting was something like: while [ -e $lock ]; do sleep 1; done > Having one process fork off another, rather unrelated, process is > rather surprising and unusual as well. Well, we were talking about hacks... But if removing the lock is safe, then that's the best hack. Though I still see no point in installing an rpm inside an rpm, that can't be resolved by dependencies and package managers. -- lfr 0/0
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