Yum lock while searching

Hi,

I'm considering filing a bug about the following behaviour, but I thought I'd 
better sound out the list first.

If I start off a yum process that actually "does" something, such as yum 
install blah or yum update and then perform a yum search as the same user 
while that first process is running, I get a locking error, e.g. 

Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Existing lock /var/run/yum.pid: another copy is running as pid 8265. Aborting.

Using the -C flag doesn't make any difference. A workaround is to run the 
search as a different user. I run into this quite frequently, as I often tend 
to start installing a handful of packages and then search for another package 
that I want to install afterwards.

Bug or feature?

Joe
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