[Cupt-devel] Bug#670772: [cupt] Cupt should set the lock when creating a snapshot.

[Karol Kozłowski]

Package: cupt
Version: 2.5.2
Severity: minor



Hello.

When you create a snapshot 'cupt' should set the lock to 
another program could not remove packages.
In the following example, create a snapshot
failed because the 'aptitude' can remove the package.


Example:

cupt> snapshot save test   
dpkg-deb: building package `acpi' in `./acpi_1.6-1_i386.deb'.
[...]


###at another terminal

#LANG=C aptitude remove ytree
The following packages will be REMOVED:  
  ytree 
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 223 kB will be freed.
(Reading database ... 128147 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing ytree ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for menu ...
### 


[...]
dpkg-deb: building package `xzgv' in `./xzgv_0.9+svn40-1_i386.deb'.
dpkg-deb: building package `yash' in `./yash_2.30-1_i386.deb'.
dpkg-repack: Fatal Error: Package ytree not fully installed
E: the command 'dpkg-repack --arch=i386 ytree' failed: exit code '1'
E: failed to repack the package 'ytree'
E: unable to construct the system snapshot 'test'
E: error performing the command 'snapshot'
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