[Yum] Problem installing multiple rpms

Smith, Eric V. ericsmith at windsor.com
Sat Apr 12 22:03:07 UTC 2003


> > I guess it depends on what would happen if you then passed the
> > transaction to rpm.  If your "pre-rpm transaction" fails, 
> and you then
> > pass it to rpm, will that fail too?  If so, there's no 
> point in doing
> > it.
> 
> If you attempt to install an already installed pkg or upgrade 
> an already
> current pkg - yes the rpm transaction will fail.

Then there's no sense just passing the whole thing through as a
transaction to rpm, right?

> Right now from pressing enter to dep resolution is about 6s
> 
> I think there are some places where I can trim that but even so - it's
> 6seconds.

On my box it's more like 30 seconds, which is why I brought it up to
begin with.

> I'm hoping to work on yum some more tomorrow - get a 1.96 out 
> w/all the
> bug fixes of this week and work on the checkfunc for downloading stuff
> 
> maybe, if everyone is good I'll be able to get something together for
> 1.0.1 too.

I wouldn't bother with this issue then.  Work on something that's
actually important, or that you'd enjoy.

Eric



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