use Pidfile.mkpidlock
in GAP.Packages.install
#956
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... in order to make sure that only one process can try to install a GAP package at the same time
(One could set different locks for different GAP packages, but GAP's PackageManager installs also dependencies, and
GAP.Packages.install
does not know about them.)See oscar-system/Oscar.jl/issues/3089 and #561.