On Nov 17, 2015, at 5:20 PM, René J.V. Bertin wrote: > On Wednesday November 18 2015 08:47:53 Joshua Root wrote: > >>> Exactly. Or the registry itself, for whatever reason that might happen >>> outside of changing installed files. >> >> You're missing the point. Installed ports must not be changed by another >> process even when the current one is not changing any. > > I am indeed missing the point, of that remark. It would also mean that one > couldn't do a `port install` when a `port list` (or `port rdeps` to pick > something a bit more time-consuming) is running?
"port list" is a read-only operation; there's no reason why it would need to set a lock nor be restricted by a lock. _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
