#776668 /usr/bin/gpk-application: while installing packages, I cannot continue browsing for more packages

Package:
packagekit
Source:
packagekit
Description:
Provides a package management service
Submitter:
Roland Illig
Date:
2015-01-31 01:03:09 UTC
Severity:
normal
#776668#5
Date:
2015-01-30 20:33:19 UTC
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To:
Dear Maintainer,

   * What led up to the situation?

I started gpk-application to install some packages. While the packages were
being installed, I remembered that I wanted to install another package, so I
typed its name into the search box.

   * What was the outcome of this action?

Nothing happened.

   * What outcome did you expect instead?

Searching should have worked normally.
#776668#10
Date:
2015-01-31 00:58:34 UTC
From:
To:
Hi!

2015-01-30 21:33 GMT+01:00 Roland Illig <roland.illig@gmx.de>:

This is due to APT not supporting parallel execution / threads very
well, which does unfortunately not allow us to perform two actions at
the same time on one backend.
There are a few ideas on how to solve this, but implementing this is
unfortunately not a trivial task.
Ideally, the APT-API would just be threadsafe ;-)
Currently, nobody is working on this issue.

Cheers,
    Matthias