Why does yum always need a global lock?

Christoph Höger choeger at cs.tu-berlin.de
Tue Oct 21 18:01:57 UTC 2008


Hi,

what does yum make requiring a global lock for _every_ operation as
root? I can search/info/download as normal user, while updating the
system but not as root. Why that?
Why do we need to lock yum for more than rpm transactions (shouldn't rpm
do that at all) and cache write operations?

regards

christoph
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