Bug#864681: Apt ux improvment: retry on lock aquisition

[Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org>]

Control: tag -1 confirmed

On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 02:01:01PM -0600, David Britton wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 1.4.6
> 
> 
> In working on: https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-init/+bug/1693361, as
> well as many other pieces of software throughout my time working with
> Ubuntu, the lack of a retry on lock acquisition is certainly an area
> where apt and libapt could improve.
> 
> As it stands, all client applications that interact with Apt are
> burdened with similar boilerplate concepts of blind retries with backoff
> algorithms.
> 
> A single command line with more advanced config settings would probably
> satisfy the bulk of use cases.
> 
>   apt --retry-lock-timeout 30
> 
> With NEVER being the default (forever), and duration to retry in minutes as
> the accepted parameter, 0 meaning, don't retry, or timeout immediately.

I have indeed been thinking about waiting for locks.

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