Package: apt Version: 1.4.6
In working on: https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-init/+bug/1693361, as well as many other pieces of software throughout my time working with Ubuntu, the lack of a retry on lock acquisition is certainly an area where apt and libapt could improve. As it stands, all client applications that interact with Apt are burdened with similar boilerplate concepts of blind retries with backoff algorithms. A single command line with more advanced config settings would probably satisfy the bulk of use cases. apt --retry-lock-timeout 30 With NEVER being the default (forever), and duration to retry in minutes as the accepted parameter, 0 meaning, don't retry, or timeout immediately. -- David Britton <david.brit...@canonical.com>
