F13-Question: Cannot start a new yum immediately after an old "yum update" ends

[Seth Vidal]

On Tue, 6 Apr 2010, Adam Williamson wrote:

> However, we already established that the problem case is when it runs
> right after you've done a yum operation, in which case the metadata has
> already just been refreshed, and it should be using the already-cached
> metadata. In that case, does it need to lock?

If the metadata is current then the operation is really quite quick.

If this lock is taking longer than that then it is worth knowing what's 
not the same.

-sv