I am attempting to create new resources on GCP with a remote backend After doing terraform init plan -out=tfplan and then terraform apply tfplan I get the following error: Error: Inconsistent depen...

npm 5 was released today and one of the new features include deterministic installs with the creation of a package-lock.json file. Is this file supposed to be kept in source control? I'm assuming...

When I run my flutter application it show Waiting for another flutter command to release the startup lock this messages and not proceed further.

I'm migrating a Laravel+Sail project to use bun instead nodejs. According the Bun docs, after run bun i, a binary lockfile named bun.lockb (similar to yarn.lock) is created to increase performance....

What's a quick-and-dirty way to make sure that only one instance of a shell script is running at a given time?

Update for 2020 This question originally referred to the yarn check command, but the docs state that this is deprecated in v1, and removed in v2, and yarn install --check-files should be used inste...

I've downloaded an old repo on a new laptop (running on MacOS Catalina) and attempted to run a R script. The repo has a renv lock file - meaning, I should be able to restore all dependencies as the...

I was wondering if the new lockfileVersion 2 was backwards compatable with older versions of NPM. Now since NPM 7 is released, a new package-lock.json file is regenerated to a different structure. ...

I'm writing a Python script that may or may not (depending on a bunch of things) run for a long time, and I'd like to make sure that multiple instances (started via cron) don't step on each others ...

I have a custom merge driver for git that helps merge lockfiles in a large monorepo shared by hundreds of engineers. Because lockfiles churn quite frequently, it's not uncommon for these files to r...

Our company uses an Artifactory repository for storing internally-published packages and as a proxy for the NPM registry. Sometimes the resolved field in lockfiles/shrinkwrap files is as expected, ...

I use yarn to install packages directly from the companies' GitLab: yarn add git+ssh://<user>@<host>:<repo> For first-level dependencies, I use yarn --pure-lockfile to reconstru...

Is there a good way with npm (I'm on npm@5) to do a version bump for a nested dependency in a shrinkwrapped/lockfiled project? Doing an npm install package@latest --save will update the shrinkwra...

On a project I have replaced npm with yarn to get the benefits of it, and also enforce our dependencies are locked in via the yarn.lock. Now, a developer added a library with npm@4, which only chan...

What is the simplest/best way to ensure only one instance of a given script is running - assuming it's Bash on Linux? At the moment I'm doing: ps -C script.name.sh > /dev/null 2>&...

I searched for Bash how to create a mutex. I came across two different ways to create a mutex in Bash. Both are stackoverflow answers and both have >100 upvotes: one answer uses mkdir and the other...

Is there a way to force git not to create index.lock for read-only operations like git status? I'm displaying the status of my working tree in tmux, being updated every couple of seconds. Basicall...

I have implemented a file locking mechanism along the lines of the suggestion from the linux man page for "open", which states: Portable programs that want to perform atomic file locking using a...

I am trying to use Java Logger. I get my logger file (name.log) with the content, it works and I also get an empty name.log.lck file. Why does this file appear, what program is creating them and ...

I do my backups with rsnapshot which creates a lockfile with the process pid inside. Now I would like to make a backup from the rsnapshots backup, so I´m looking for a way to create this lockfile f...

In GNU Make 3.81, I need to remove a lockfile in the event of an error in any part of the toolchain. Is there a special target that will allow me to do this? Do I need to write a wrapper script? I...