If rpm install is running, wait until finished

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We had troubles since our application run during rpm installation.

In the future we would like to know if the rpm command is currently installing rpm packages.

Maybe I am missing the matching keywords, but I could not find a way to detect this with my favourite search engine.

How to detect if a rpm install is currently running?

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 04 '16 at 13:51

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I guess here must be some kind of lock file, but both zypper and rpm can be installing new packages; and they detect whether the other program is trying to do something. A very simplistic approach might be:

if pgrep rpm || pgrep zypper
then
    echo "won't run since rpms are being installed"
    exit
fi

answered May 04 '16 at 13:51

Chris Maes

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Yes, this could work. But `rpm -qa` would be a false positive: There is a process called "rpm", but it does not do any installs. – guettli May 04 '16 at 14:55
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agree... I said it is a very simplistic approach.... – Chris Maes May 04 '16 at 15:01

If rpm install is running, wait until finished

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