Re: yum-completed-transactions...
Les Mikesell <[email protected]>
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On 2/17/2010 5:44 PM, Robert G. Brown wrote:
> Dear yumsters,
>
> OK, yum was interrupted (probably by an urgent powerout shutdown) on a
> small notebook computer I'm installing and had "uncompleted
> transactions". I ran yum-complete-transactions and it announced that
> what it wanted to do was remove 193 odd packages from the system, all of
> them critical to system functionality at first glance.
>
> Safe or not safe? yum update is otherwise clean -- are these old
> packages that yum needs to remove, or did yum get caught in a bizarre
> state where it is getting ready to trash my system by removing enough
> core that I'd have to reinstall (a major PITA)?
I've had a similar thing happen and it did the right thing in removing
only the old copies. You can check with 'rpm -q packagename' to see
that it thinks you have duplicates for the ones it plans to remove.
--
Les Mikesell
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