[Aptitude-devel] Bug#666130: aptitude: locks dpkg status while running APT::Update::Post-Invoke-Success

[Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe]

Package: aptitude                        
Version: 0.6.6-1

Hello,

thanks for fixing #476399. Unfortunately there seems to be a semantic
difference between apt and aptitude: While apt releases all locks before
running APT::Update::Post-Invoke-Success, aptitude doesn't.

I have an APT::Update::Post-Invoke-Success hook that runs sync-available.
This works well with apt but doesn't with aptitude:

# apt-get update
...
Merging available database in /tmp/apt-available.Z5Xd6H...done.
Replacing available packages info, using /tmp/apt-available.Z5Xd6H.
Information about 37373 packages was updated.
...
# aptitude update
...
98% [Working]Merging available database in /tmp/apt-available.gUAoEz...done.
dpkg: error: dpkg status database is locked by another process
E: Problem executing scripts APT::Update::Post-Invoke-Success 'test x$SHELL = x/bin/sh -a x$USER = x && exec > /dev/null; test -x /usr/sbin/sync-available && /usr/sbin/sync-available'
E: Sub-process returned an error code

# 


Thanks for your work & regards
   Mario
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