Stanislav Maslovski <stanislav.maslov...@gmail.com> writes: > On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 10:00:40AM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Stanislav Maslovski >> <stanislav.maslov...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > This is possible, however, it is an extra busy work for a user. In any >> > case, I think that holding a lock only for downloading is an overkill >> > and this can be relaxed. >> >> What if you would launch two download-only ops at the same time? >> Isn't a lock needed in that case as well? > > That should a different lock. Currently, when _dowloading_ aptitude > holds a lock that prevents _installing_.
It also needs to hold apt and synaptic from downloading, at least from downloading the same file. The dpkg lock is universally used so that works (too well). A change to per file locks would need some carefull coordination. MfG Goswin -- 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/8762sywqfe.fsf@frosties.localnet