On Wed Oct 04, 2000 at 12:41:03PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I don't understand the logic to seeing a screen full of "cannot get shared > lock" messages everytime you do an upgrade of multiple packages. Does the > user need to see this for instance while upgrading several KDE packages via > "rpm -Uvh kde*" ? What purpose would this serve ? No, and this has been fixed also so that it does it silently. However, it is better than the old method where if you tried to upgrade multiple packages one after the other manually (ie. rpm -Fvh kernel-utils*; rpm -Fvh kernel-docs*), it would crap out after the first one if it couldn't obtain an exclusive lock. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net // Danen Consulting Services www.danen.net, www.freezer-burn.org // MandrakeSoft, Inc. www.linux-mandrake.com 1024D/FE6F2AFD 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 D0E5 FE6F 2AFD Current Linux uptime: 1 day 11 hours 19 minutes.
