#2817 Meltano Install with Running Processes leads to broken venvs Issue created by MeltyBot Migrated from GitLab: https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/-/issues/2876 Originally created by @vischous on 2021-08-04 204056 ---

meltano install -p 20

I have multiple processes running using the same meltano directory. Something like 25 taps/targets in this meltano project (lots of inheritance). When I run`meltano install -p 20` I had one of the taps/targets get an Access Denied (Another process was using the files in the venv that was getting updated). This lead to a state where that tap/target was not runnable. Maybe this was a `rm -rf tapdirectory/ `action? Ideally Meltano would be aware of what's running and not clober the venv for that job unless you told it to try with -force or something. I know the recommendation is to run docker containers which side steps these problems, but I don't have that option today. It's looking like running symlinks on a production directory and stepping in a new version of my Meltano project would be the way to go, but curious about what you think about making meltano install not break things if something is running at the same time Slack Thread: https://meltano.slack.com/archives/C01TCRBBJD7/p1628105558044000 meltano/meltano