* 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 -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new
