What Verifying actually does?

James Antill james at fedoraproject.org
Fri Nov 7 16:09:35 UTC 2014


On Fri, 2014-11-07 at 12:21 +0100, Miroslav Suchý wrote:
> When installing package I will get:
>    Installing : zsh-5.0.7-1.fc21.x86_64 
>                         1/1
>    Verifying  : zsh-5.0.7-1.fc21.x86_64 
>                         1/1
> 
> What actually Verifying does? Is it the same as -V? Why it is in transaction? I tried to search for documentation of 
> this step, but found nothing.

 It's inside yum, after the transaction runs, in a function called
verifyTransaction().
 The two main parts of it are making sure that each transaction member
that was supposed to be installed was actually installed (and dito. for
those that were supposed to be removed), and installing/removing the
yumdb information.



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