YUM > Running multiple instances

[CHAT KHODA]

Dear firends,
Do you have any comment to run multiple instances of
YUM at the time?

Thank you,

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[Paul Howarth]

CHAT KHODA wrote:
> Dear firends,
> Do you have any comment to run multiple instances of
> YUM at the time?

My comment is: it won't work because yum creates a lock file 
specifically to prevent this from happening.

Paul.

[Bryn M. Reeves]

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Paul Howarth wrote:
> My comment is: it won't work because yum creates a lock file
> specifically to prevent this from happening.
>
> Paul.

Not actually true.

If you are running the secondary copies of yum as a non-privileged user,
then this works - for some values of 'works' ;-)

What I have observed is that during updates to the repository data,
non-privileged searches fail, either because of inconsistent metadata or
with some ugly python backtraces indicating problems accessing the db.

Once the root-owned yum finishes modifying the cache files, searches
work for non-privileged users as expected.

I don't know if doing this is a good idea, or even expected behaviour -
ymmv :-)

Cheers,

Bryn.
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[David Cary Hart]

On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 08:00 -0700, CHAT KHODA wrote:
> Dear firends,
> Do you have any comment to run multiple instances of
> YUM at the time?

What are you trying to accomplish in doing so?