[pkg-discuss] Using the CLI and the GUI simultaneously

[Vit Hrachovy]

Amit k. Saha napsal(a):
> On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 4:58 PM, Alexander Vlasov
> <Alexander.Vlasov at sun.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> it's not about synaptic: all tools (aptitude, apt-get, synaptic) aquiring a
>> lock before performing any operation. So you can't run aptitude and apt-get
>> at once.
> 
> Okay, so IPS differs from them all?

AFAIK IPS does not do locking (yet).
So running multiple UIs at the same time can produce unpredictable results.

See bug
http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=1668

Cheers
Vit