Subject: bug#19941: closed (simultaneous installation to same profile)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 16:41:02 +0000

Your bug report

#19941: simultaneous installation to same profile

which was filed against the guix package, has been closed.

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Subject: simultaneous installation to same profile
From: Julien Lepiller <[email-masked]>
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Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 17:40:02 +0100
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It's fun to close old bugs :). This one had a more recent duplicate I fixed recently, so closing. See https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/36375.

Subject: Re: simultaneous installation to same profile
From: [email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Ricardo Wurmus <[email-masked]>
Cc: Guix-devel <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 23:15:22 +0100
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Ricardo Wurmus <[email-masked]> skribis:

> my colleague was curious what would happen if he installed two packages
> at the same time from different shell sessions.
>
> He ran "guix package -i openmpi" in one shell and "guix package -i
> boost" in the other.  The boost installation apparently finished earlier
> and was added to the profile.  When the openmpi installation finished,
> it was nowhere to be found in the profile.  (See the logs below.)
>
> Should we prevent simultaneous installations with locks?

Yes, it would be nice; filing it to bug-guix.

Thanks,
Ludo’.