Subject: Re: simultaneous installation to same profile

From: [email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès)
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 23:15:22 +0100

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’.