#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. -- Wir lassen uns beide von unseren Frauen scheiden und ziehen zusammen. -- Toni Polster (über sein verbessertes Verhältnis zu Trainer Peter Neururer) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110204002107.ga14...@rotes76.wohnheim.uni-kl.de