Why does yum always need a global lock?

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 17:47 +0200, Christoph Höger wrote:
> ok, that sounds like some motivation for me do to it. 
> 
> I've had a quick look over the source code and could not yet figure out,
> which functions really modify stuff in /var/cache/yum, but at a first
> glance it seem to be a few. You do not have a list of them flying
> around, don't you? ;)
> 
> My approach would be to create a decorator (called @needslock or
> something) and add it to every function that needs it. That decorator
> would look like the one in the attachment.
> Is that the yum-way fo doing it?
> 

If you want to talk about this more - please join
yum-devel at lists.baseurl.org

fedora-devel is the wrong list for it.

thanks,
-sv