On 3/7/06, Daniel B. Thurman <dant@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > I don't know if this one was already discussed to death, > but please bear with me... > > Why is it that YUM can only be run/executed once, by one process, > by one user - whatever when all I am trying to do is to yum info <whatever> > while yum is busy doing something else. > > I mean - why wasn't yum written so that it can take care of itself, > that is, it knows what is permissible and what is not permissible? > > I somewhat understand if an update or installation is taking place (but > these operations could use transactions control) - but why not allow commands > such as list or search or other non-intrusive operations while yum is doing, > say updates or installs? > > Just wondered, > Dan > Yum uses the rpm database which gets locked when yum accesses it. If you have alternate packages managers, e.g. apt-get or smart, installed try running those along side yum.
