Re: Frontend locking in APT clients

On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 08:19:17PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > Hi folks, > > With frontend locking in dpkg git, I think it's time I clear up > some potential confusion as to how this is supposed to work in the > APT world. > > The idea is that the current _system->Lock() /

Frontend locking in APT clients

Hi folks, With frontend locking in dpkg git, I think it's time I clear up some potential confusion as to how this is supposed to work in the APT world. The idea is that the current _system->Lock() / apt_pkg.SystemLock / apt_pkg.pkgsystem_lock() will start to manage _both_ lock-frontend and lock,