On Sun Sep 10, 2000 at 09:29:33AM -0400, pgeorges wrote:
> > I've written a perl script called rpmcheck which will compare your
> > locally installed rpms to a local mirror directory (or nfs). It
> > doesn't check over FTP (yet), so it's not useful to everyone, but some
> > people may appreciate the script. It can tell you what rpms need to
> > be upgraded to the current version in the mirror, or what new rpms
> > exist that you do not have installed. It prompts you to
> > freshen/install depending on the mode you choose.
>
> Nice. But : when I freshen a package, the scripts had not finish yet,
> and I get the
> prompt back, so you end up with a concurrency access to RPM database,
> like this :
>
> U MandrakeUpdate VER 7.1-26mdk -> 7.1-27mdk
> Freshen MandrakeUpdate (yes/NO)? yes
> MandrakeUpdate
> ##################################################
> U MySQL VER 3.23.22-2mdk -> 3.23.23-1mdk
> Freshen MySQL (yes/NO)? yes
> cannot get exclusive lock on database
> error: cannot open /var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm
>
> => because MandrakeUpdate install was not finished (checked with a quick
> 'ps ax')
> So, in that case, I have to restart the script ...
And you'll always get this with certain packages unless I add a sleep
call behind every freshen/install... some packages do a lot more
"behind the scenes" stuff than others, so if I put in something like a
60 second delay, it'll drive people nuts... =) I don't know of any
other way to test this, but there is a perl library for RPM, so maybe
I should check that out and see if there's something in there that
will help... thanks for the feedback!
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