Auto update locks will fail Chef-run

[jujugrrr]

I think we had some issues before where Chef runs were failing because an automatic update was already running.

By example it's 3am, yum is running an uprade, Chef-client start and cannot install a package because yum install is already run.

Maybe we can have a library which will run at the beginning of a Chef run to detect if there is already something using the package manager.

I'll try to get more details on how we were impacted before.

[martinb3]

I'd be curious to see what problems actually happened. I think the package manager already has logic to detect if another instance of it is already running.

[jujugrrr]

@lmunro I thing you have more context on this. Do you remember what was the conflict?