Re: yum-completed-transactions...

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 12:44 AM, Robert G. Brown <[email protected]> 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)?
>
>  rgb
>
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It should be safe.

This is because updating foo-1.0 to foo-2.0 is a 2 step process.

1. install foo-2.0
2. cleaup after foo-1.0 ( files not overwritten by foo-2.0 is erased)

If the process is aborted between 1 and 2, then all the cleanup has not been
executed and when you run yum-complete-transactions then yum
will continue where it was aborted by doing all the cleanup and removing the
old package versions.

package-cleanup --dupes will show you a lot of duplicate packages because
the old versions is still in the rpm db.

after running yum-complete-transactions

then then dupes should be gone.

Tim

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