Re: GDB locks RPM database

Sterling Augustine via Gdb <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gdb.devel
Message-ID <CAEG7qUzty8y1uKmc6DEd578OOwG2P-mGXN5AQZo72R7D_8+2Qg@mail.gmail.com> 
On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 6:11 PM Muhammad Umer via Gdb <[email protected]>
wrote:

> But why take a lock? If the purpose is to get info about debug packages,
> why not just query the package database using rpm command and get the
> required information? Why is taking a lock necessary?
>

 Simon didn't implement the functionality, so you would have to ask redhat,
or whomever it was that wrote the code. This is not a part of a normal gdb
installation.
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