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[Hans de Goede]

Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 03:33 -0400, Build System wrote:
>> New package yum-updatesd
>> 	Update notification daemon
> 
> FYI -- this is a new and reworked yum-updatesd that should hopefully
> help with some of the complaints that I have been had.  The *big* change
> is that it's bit split into two pieces:
> * The actual daemon.  This is small, listens to dbus, and doesn't ever
> touch the rpmdb, etc.  Which should keep its memory footprint low.
> * Helper process that's forked off to do actual update checks
> (+downloads +installs if so configured).  Helper isn't threaded, which
> should avoid some of the problems that have been cropping up.
> 
> People prodding and testing at this would be much appreciated; I'm
> hoping to be able to push this to F7-updates at some point as well.
> Bugs to bugzilla as usual
> 

Does this also fix the issue where issuing any yum command wil fail while it is 
checking for updates? That is the no 1 reason for not to use yum-updatesd.

If it doesn't fix this, maybe the following is an idea:
-modify yum to detect if its yum-updatesd which is locking the current yum
  "database"
-if it is yum-updatesd send it a signal to stop doing whats its doing, on which
  it will finish its current operation, and then release the db.
-print: "waiting for yum-updatesdb to release the database"
-poll the database lock 2 times a second or so
-continue

Regards,

Hans