On Sun, 15 Nov 2009, Paul Johnson wrote:
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Clemens Eisserer linuxhippy@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I had a power shortage while I ran "yum update". After booting up, yum told me to run yum-complete-transaction.
However yum-complete-transaction reported (see attachement), it would: Install 7 Package(s) Upgrade 205 Package(s) Remove 209 Package(s)
So I canceld, afraid of having a lot of stiff accidentially removed.
Is it safe to let yum-complete-transaction continue?
Thanks, Clemens
Watch out!
Same happened to me and I mistakenly let it proceed. It removed lots and lots of VITAL packages. As far as I can see, it acted as if it has installed the new updates, but it had not. Then it removed very imprortant things and it was very difficult to recover.
I'd like to know how to "clear" the yum system so that yum-complete-transaction does not think it needs to "help" me any more.
yum-complete-transaction --cleanup-only
which is in the --help output.
Also if you have a good case could you run the latest yum-complete-transaction from here:
http://yum.baseurl.org/gitweb?p=yum-utils.git;a=blob_plain;f=yum-complete-tr...
it adds some more error checking and in my tests it does a pretty good job.
thanks, -sv