On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 03:10 +0300, Stanislav Maslovski wrote: > 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? > > -- > Stanislav > >
FYI, There is a blueprint in ubuntu aimed for natty concerning this feature: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/other-foundations-n-update-manager-incremental-updates >support downloading in parallel while upgrading the chunks: TODO Regards, Julian
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