Re: Yum concurrency - Multiple instances at the same time

2012-01-24 Thread Richard Hughes
On 23 January 2012 16:10, Freak Trick wrote: > Is there some way I can get more than one instance of yum running? I use multiple instances of zif quite a lot, although you still have to lock the rpmdb if writing and metadata if refreshing, although most of the stuff I do is operating from a cache

Re: Yum concurrency - Multiple instances at the same time

2012-01-24 Thread James Hogarth
>> >> You can run it as different users. That is useful if you are doing updates >> as root and you want to do queries at the same time (as a normal user). > > > Be aware that they will step on eachother's toes because one will have a > lock on the RPM database and the other will want it. > I thi

Re: Yum concurrency - Multiple instances at the same time

2012-01-23 Thread Mark LaPierre
On 01/23/2012 11:15 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 21:40:10 +0530, Freak Trick wrote: Is there some way I can get more than one instance of yum running? You can run it as different users. That is useful if you are doing updates as root and you want to do queries at the

Re: Yum concurrency - Multiple instances at the same time

2012-01-23 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 21:40:10 +0530, Freak Trick wrote: > Is there some way I can get more than one instance of yum running? You can run it as different users. That is useful if you are doing updates as root and you want to do queries at the same time (as a normal user). -- users mailing li