apt: retry acquire the cache if it is already locked for 120s (!6) · Merge requests · APT Developers / apt

An idea that was in the back of my head for some time and that I would love to get feedback on (branch just a RFC to demo the idea):

$ sudo apt full-upgrade
Cache locked by another package manager, retrying... 1%
...

And it either fails after a timeout (120s right now) or continue once the cache can be locked. WDYT?

apt: retry acquire the cache if it is already locked for 120s