Hi Jason Gunthorpe schrieb: > 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
Thanks for the hint, but it does not work for some reason: 13:24:43 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ alias apt-download alias apt-download='sudo apt-get --download-only -o Debug::no-locking=true ' 13:25:28 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-download install libdockapp-dev Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libdockapp1 libxaw-dev xlib6g-dev The following NEW packages will be installed: libdockapp-dev libdockapp1 libxaw-dev xlib6g-dev 0 packages upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. Need to get 365kB of archives. After unpacking 1154kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Get:1 http://ftp.at.debian.org unstable/main libdockapp-dev 1:0.4.0-1 [9238B] Get:2 http://ftp.at.debian.org unstable/main libdockapp1 1:0.4.0-1 [8404B] While this is running on another rxvt: 13:25:45 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo dpkg -i src/msyslog/msyslog_1.01-10_i386.deb dpkg: status database area is locked by another process 13:26:12 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ Get:3 http://ftp.at.debian.org unstable/main libxaw-dev 4.0.2-1 [290kB] Get:4 http://ftp.at.debian.org unstable/main xlib6g-dev 4.0.2-1 [57.4kB] Fetched 365kB in 57s (6373B/s) 13:26:48 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ciao, 2ri -- Options are optional. man 5 autofs
