[Yum-devel] makecache process

[Matthew Miller]

On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 03:32:50PM -0700, Michael Stenner wrote:
> I'm not familiar with the locking and metadata subsystems, so forgive
> me if this is naive or incorrect.  When you only hit locking conflicts
> when yum is being run interactively twice, then fine.  If you have to
> hit the 4 am update job, then fine again.  If we're talking about
> something that runs every few hours, it pays to think carefully about
> it as collisions will get annoying.  If the metadata rebuild only
> takes a few (5-20) seconds, then no biggie.  I suspect that's the
> case, so fine one more time.

For what it's worth, this exactly what we were doing with apt in the olden
days (a few years ago). It was occasionally annoying but mostly we didn't
think about it. And that was *without* a meaningful error message. :)

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