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

Eugene V. Lyubimkin jackyf at debian.org
Mon Apr 30 07:29:12 UTC 2012


forcemerge 587351 670772
retitle 587351 [libcupt] implement dpkg database locking
block 587351 by 670897
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Hello Karol, thank you for the report.

On 2012-04-28 22:28, Karol Kozłowski wrote:
[...]
> 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.

True. Unfortunately I cannot do that before Dpkg people document the
locking interface (for which I just created a new bug #670897).

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