* Cosmetic changes and typo fixes

* IgnorePkg and --ignore work again
* Partial changes to support removal of conflicts for -U and -A (INCOMPLETE)

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/lib/libalpm/alpm.c b/lib/libalpm/alpm.c
index 1bda976c..a7fb0a99 100644
--- a/lib/libalpm/alpm.c
+++ b/lib/libalpm/alpm.c
@@ -261,8 +261,13 @@ int alpm_db_update(int force, pmdb_t *db)
 	/* Sanity checks */
 	ASSERT(handle != NULL, RET_ERR(PM_ERR_HANDLE_NULL, -1));
 	ASSERT(db != NULL && db != handle->db_local, RET_ERR(PM_ERR_WRONG_ARGS, -1));
-	/* Do not update a database if a transaction is on-going */
-	ASSERT(handle->trans == NULL, RET_ERR(PM_ERR_TRANS_NOT_NULL, -1));
+	/* Verify we are in a transaction.  This is done _mainly_ because we need a DB
+	 * lock - if we update without a db lock, we may kludge some other pacman
+	 * process that _has_ a lock.
+	 */
+	ASSERT(handle->trans != NULL, RET_ERR(PM_ERR_TRANS_NULL, -1));
+	ASSERT(handle->trans->state == STATE_INITIALIZED, RET_ERR(PM_ERR_TRANS_NOT_INITIALIZED, -1));
+	ASSERT(handle->trans->type == PM_TRANS_TYPE_SYNC, RET_ERR(PM_ERR_TRANS_TYPE, -1));
 
 	if(!_alpm_list_is_in(db, handle->dbs_sync)) {
 		RET_ERR(PM_ERR_DB_NOT_FOUND, -1);