Bug 179543

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Description of problem:
If a "yum install" is in progress, and a user attempts to run,
"yum search <keyword>", the search fails with the error:

  Existing lock /var/run/yum.pid: another copy is running. Aborting.

It would be great if yum could be updated to allow a search command to be run whilst an install/update is in progress. The search is effectively a "read-only" operation, so this should be possible to do. The only issue I can think of is how you handle the "status/repo" field in the search output. For example, the lines below are snippets from the output of "yum search python":

python-simpletal.noarch                  4.1-1.fc4              extras
pyorbit.i386                             2.0.1-4                installed

If I was in the process of running, "yum install python-simpletal", and I then ran, "yum search python", if you allowed multiple invocations, it could either disregard the in-progress transaction and simply report python-simpletal as "extras", or if it was really clever, the "yum search python" command could query the in-progress "yum install python-simpletal" transaction, and show the 3rd field as "locked" or maybe even "install-pending" / "update-pending" / "delete-pending", or similar:

python-simpletal.noarch                  4.1-1.fc4              install-pending
pyorbit.i386                             2.0.1-4                installed


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
yum-2.4.1-1.fc4

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. yum install <package> &
2. yum search <package>
3.
  

Actual Results:  Existing lock /var/run/yum.pid: another copy is running. Aborting.

Expected Results:  yum could allow the search to return the results as expected.

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