Feature changed by: Ralph Ulrich (ulenrich) Feature #306315, revision 7 Title: Improve PK/zypper/YaST Big Lock openSUSE-11.2: Rejected by Christoph Thiel (cthiel1) reject date: 2009-07-16 11:45:36 reject reason: no resources for 11.2. Priority Requester: Important Projectmanager: Important openSUSE-11.3: Evaluation Priority Requester: Important Projectmanager: Important Requested by: Federico Lucifredi (flucifredi) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Currently, execution of any action by one of the package management tools blocks all others, in a "big lock" fashion". This is entirely acceptable when I am doing something with YaST, or running the PK applet, but it is very fastidious when it is due to background activity. Running zypper and seeing that lock message when nothing is being run by the user is very annoying (and is really the same for Yum on RHEL - but it still sucks :-) Can we improve the way PK refreshing causes everything else to lock up? I must say I expect upstream to be doing something about this... References: http://lists.opensuse.org/zypp-devel/2008-03/msg00075.html https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=551761 Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: The lock interferes with Administrator activity at random moments, and is very aggravating. It would be a competitive detail over RHEL, as well as a customer satisfaction item. Discussion: #1: Federico Lucifredi (flucifredi) (2009-03-30 21:13:47) I am somewhat reluctant to give this an M, as I do not know if something can actually be done to improve this. It would certainly warrant an M if a good solution can be devised, as this is really annoying on both SLES and RHEL, and it would make us look good in the comparison. #2: Ján Kupec (jkupec) (2009-11-06 10:30:50) Even if one zypp app is running, one should still be able to use the other in read-only mode (searching, reporting needed updates from current metadata, etc.). + #3: Ralph Ulrich (ulenrich) (2009-11-07 01:01:08) + This would be really cheap a read only zypper: + rypper: only read only action enabled + Benefit: I can do some working tasks with zypper and while this works I + am able to inform myself using: + rypper se -s something -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306315