On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Arthur Korn wrote:

> Apt-get upgrade blocks me from testing my own packages while it
> is downloading files (takes me hours over my slow link). It
> locks the status-DB (even dpkg refuses to installs), though it
> doesn't touch it while downloading (or does it?).

Use the no-locking option in this case, -o Debug::no-locking=true

Jason

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