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FS#8226 - Pacman doesn't like it when multiple processes modify the cache

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Jason Chu (jason) - Friday, 05 October 2007, 17:43 GMT-4
Last edited by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Sunday, 07 October 2007, 05:56 GMT-4
Task Type Feature Request
Category Backend/Core
Status New
Assigned To Aaron Griffin (phrakture)
Dan McGee (toofishes)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 3.0.6
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 0%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Summary and Info:
If you mount bind pacman's cache inside a chroot and try to run multiple pacman updates at once, there could be cache collisions.

Steps to Reproduce:
1) Create chroot
2) mount -o bind /var/cache/pacman <path to chroot's pacman cache>
3) pacman -Syu on host system
4) pacman -Syu in chroot
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Comment by Xavier (shining) - Thursday, 24 July 2008, 08:29 GMT-4
Allan : How can you even detect that is happening?
Dan : Not sure. Maybe worth leaving open.
me : maybe we need to lock the cache as well

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