Why does yum always need a global lock?

[Christoph Höger]

Would you be interested in making it more fine-grained at all? As its
python I basically _could_ do some work.

Am Dienstag, den 21.10.2008, 14:37 -0400 schrieb seth vidal:
> On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 20:01 +0200, Christoph Höger wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> B/c none of the /var/cache/yum dir is writable as a user. But as root it
> is all writable. Changing the metadata while another yum operation is
> going on will result in unpredictable results.
> 
> > Why do we need to lock yum for more than rpm transactions (shouldn't rpm
> > do that at all) and cache write operations?
> 
> b/c we write out other data.
> 
> -sv

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