Re: yum 3.2.11 (fedora rawhide) erroneous success message

Matthew Miller <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.rpm.yum
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 08:51:45PM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> > > > >   Updating  : xulrunner                    ######################### [1/2]
> > > > > Error unpacking rpm package
> > > > > xulrunner-1.9-0.beta3.22.nightly20080215.fc9.i386
> > > > > error: unpacking of archive failed on
> > > > > file /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9pre/dictionaries: cpio: rename
> [...]
> > yes, rpm gives us no way of knowing otherwise in the python layer,
> That's so nice of RPM. Is there an open bug for this general issue?

<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=216221>

is it, I suppose. So anyway, not a Yum problem intrinsically, but something
we need to get fixed in RPM. With the new world order there, is it
reasonable to wait for that, or should I work on the double-check plugin?

> Failing that, I guess a plugin could check to see if what was claimed to be
> installed is actually installed when the transaction is done....

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