Ubuntu
aptdaemon package

  1. Bug #668846
  2. Comment #9

Comment 9 for bug 668846

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Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor) wrote :

Aptdaemon already shows the name of the binary/application which holds the lock in the status message: "Waiting for XXX to exit...". Possible values in real life are aptitude, apt-get, dpkg and synaptic.

The status of the transaction is set to PK_STATUS_ENUM_WAITING_FOR_LOCK on the PackageKit interface and to aptdaemon.enums.STATUS_WATING_FOR_LOCK on the aptdaemon interface which is used by s-c.

So basically all technical requirements are there.

An important use case is the daily update of the cache to check for upgrades. It "currently" doesn't use aptdaemon but calls apt-get update. So you can get random cache locks.