The updated description explains why frontend locking is necessary, but how does this particular bug impact users? What's wrong for users as a consequence of this bug? Eg. what user story is broken? I need to understand this in order to judge whether an SRU is warranted, which I'm supposed to consider as part of my SRU review.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to packagekit in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1795614 Title: packagekit frontend locking Status in packagekit package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in packagekit source package in Xenial: Triaged Status in packagekit source package in Bionic: Triaged Status in packagekit source package in Cosmic: Fix Released Bug description: [Impact] PackageKit needs an adjustment for frontend locking, so it does not release the frontend lock during dpkg invocations, but only the normal dpkg lock. Frontend locking prevents race conditions between multiple dpkg frontends, which can cause other frontends to be interrupted while they are installing stuff. [Test case] 1. Install a package 2. Modify prerm to sleep 3. Remove package via pkcon and check that packagekitd process holds lock-frontend and dpkg holds lock (we release lock by closing the lock files, so just check if the files are open). [Regression potential] Changing the code to call UnLockInner() vs UnLock() makes it do less steps and only release "lock" as before, and not "lock-frontend". That should not be causing any regressions. The patch also adds a call to LockInner() after the dpkg execution to make it reacquire "lock", this could fail. It should not have much impact however, as it only affects a single transaction AFAICT. It does reduce the risk of some frontend not implementing frontend locking from racing while we still hold the frontend lock, though. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/packagekit/+bug/1795614/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
