V Tue, Jan 27, 2026 at 07:55:02AM +0000, Peter Robinson napsal(a): > Hey Folks, > > I'm not sure if I'm misremembering, and I don't currently have an > older system I can test but you use to be able to read only queries in > rpm while another transaction was running. > > Eg 'rpm -q kernel' while dnf upgrade was running but now it errors > out, was that an intended change in rpm6 or an unintended regression? > I confirm that since Fedora 43, where RPM is first in version 6, querying RPM database (e.g. "rpm -q rpm") while an RPM transaction is runnnig (e.g. "rpm -v --reinstall ./clamav-data-1.4.3-3.fc43.noarch.rpm") halts on the databse lock with this message:
warning: waiting for transaction lock on /usr/lib/sysimage/rpm/.rpm.lock
Whether it's really needed, or not, I will leave the answer on RPM
maintainers.
-- Petr
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