Re: does aptitude really need to lock the status database when downloading?

[Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de>]

#include <hallo.h>
* Stanislav Maslovski [Fri, Feb 04 2011, 03:10:54AM]:
> Hi debian-devel,
> 
> I wanted to ask this for quite a long time: Does aptitude (I think
> apt-get does the same) really have to lock "the status database area"
> when _downloading_ packages?
>
> For example, I am running an update on a slow connection and want to
> uninstall or install with dpkg a few packages while the others are
> being downloaded. Should not this be possible? I understand that there
> can be a situation that a dependency could be affected by such an
> action, but is not it easy to check for this right before unpacking?

If you want to have that level of control, why don't you just check it
manually? Use --download-only with apt-get (no dpkg locking this way)
and when it's done, use apt-get without it to install the packages after
making sure that there is no dpkg active anymore.

Regards,
Eduard.

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