Re: Bug#122950: shouldn't lock status database area
On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, Robert Millan wrote:
> Excuse me if i'm wrong, but I don't think there
> might be any problems on installing packages
> manually with dpkg while APT is fetching for a
> dist-upgrade.
There is, when APT goes to invoke dpkg after finishing the download it may
very well do Very Bad things since the state of the system has changed.
If you think you will need to use dpkg while downloading use the -d
option which does not lock the database (and does not install things
either...)
Jason
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