* Peter Robinson:

> 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 believe a side effect of this change is that any user can run

  exec 5</var/lib/rpm/rpmdb.sqlite
  flock --fcntl 5 sleep $((1000 * 1000 * 1000))

(or whatever the appropriate path for the RPM database is)

and block any RPM operations.  That's not ideal.

Thanks,
Florian

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