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Rouslan

Member

From: New York USA

Registered: 2002-11-13

Posts: 76

multiple pacman instances

Hi apeiro, do you remember, when I asked you why pacman would not run in two instances at the same time, you said that it's a security option? I thought about that, and have a suggestion: can you just cut some version-checking source from pacman and make a little programm that would be able to display a version of some package, while doing something like, for example: pacman -Syu ? This seems to me to be the easiest variant, but maybe you could make pacman able to check version of packages, while it's doing some other jobs.
Just an Idea 

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Rouslan

orelien

Forum Fellow

From: France

Registered: 2002-12-05

Posts: 220

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Re: multiple pacman instances

pacman 2.5 now allows to have several simultaneous read access and still one write access to the db: so querying is now possible during an upgrade.

I know this feature was already mentionned in the news section, but this is to shorten the list of "unanswered" posts on the forum.