On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 13:37, Pierre Fortin wrote:
> On 01 Jul 2003 12:52:33 -0700 James Sparenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> 
> > It works as expected.. the parent automatically dies and the child
> > continues it's run... Problem is when I put a similar case into an RPM
> > and it runs it.  It hangs.  RPM will not continue until child runs it's
> > course.  And all the time that rpm #1 is open I can't start installing
> > rpm #2 (the rpm database does not multi-task.)  grrrr.  Although rpm
> > uses bash shell scripts it sure doesn't use them correctly.
> 
> Sorry, I don't follow all the threads...  From what you say here, I think
> what you are up against is DB locking...  and that won't be solved with
> multiple threads unless the DB allows it, which I doubt.  Kinda sounds
> like the rpm DB is Linux' "registry" in this respect...

correct and if I can figure out how to make rpm start the auto install
script ... then release it to continue on it's merry way I can cut
installation time for my company by 40% Or at least the time required to
find out if all rpms install correctly.  (the rpm in question takes
about 80% of the total install time just waiting for the script is
spawns to run.) Not to disimilar to the situation where you install a
new  kernel.  It runs a number of commands (such as install_kernel) that
if there was a way to run them ... then let the rpm command finish while
they continue on their own.  The system would be able to begin
installing the next rpm while the install_kernel command etc finished on
it's own.  You know the old theory ... you can do anything with
software... we'll, I'm trying to prove just that. *grin*

james

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