Shawn Walker wrote:
> Tom Mueller wrote:
>   
>> Shawn Walker wrote:
>>     
>>> One concern I have is what happens if pkg(1) enables/disables an 
>>> authority while the packagemanager is running.
>>>
>>> What happens then?
>>>       
>> The same thing that happens if you run "pkg unset-authority" while 
>> packagemanager is running. The packages are removed from the catalog 
>> cache on disk.  However, since packagemanager already has that 
>> information cached, it will still be able to install packages, etc. from 
>> the authority that was disabled.
>>     
>
> So, in other words, this is highly dependent on the client.  I'm 
> somewhat uncomfortable with the possible race conditions here, but for 
> now, assuming this doesn't cause the packagemanager to traceback, I 
> think we'll be alright.
>
>   
I think for the time being running pkg from the command line while 
packagemanager is the same as (for example) doing to pkg installs at 
once: Don't Do That. This seems like about the most innocuous 
interaction between the two I could imagine seeing. Until we solve this 
problem at a much larger scale, I don't think we should worry about it 
in this context.

Brock
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