Hi debian-devel, I wanted to ask this for quite a long time: Does aptitude (I think apt-get does the same) really have to lock "the status database area" when _downloading_ packages?
For example, I am running an update on a slow connection and want to uninstall or install with dpkg a few packages while the others are being downloaded. Should not this be possible? I understand that there can be a situation that a dependency could be affected by such an action, but is not it easy to check for this right before unpacking? -- Stanislav -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
