Re: [Synaptic-devel] My suggestions!

[Panu Matilainen]

On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Rex Dieter wrote:

> On Friday 06 June 2003 8:48 am, sindre pedersen wrote:
> 
> >  using the rpm enabled apt and synaptic (the package
> > from freshrpms.net). I have experienced that rpm hangs when I have
> > synaptic open, and I have to close synaptic to do an rpm -ivh or similar
> > to install something new. This is not really a big problem, but quite an
> > annoyance.
> 
> This is true of apt much of the time too.  When it is running, it keeps the 
> rpm database open and locked, preventing most other uses of rpm as well.

rpm >= 4.1 supports concurrent rpmdb access though it's 100% safe.. for 
RH9 you really want to update to final rpm-4.2, the one included in RH9 
has its share of problems. Available from 
ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/dist/rpm-4.2.x/

        - Panu -