[Yum] Warning: don't let yum update update yum

[seth vidal]

> But that was back in December of last year.
> 
> The only difference between the destructive yum update and all the 
> others was having yum 2.0.5-1.fd.fr.noarch as part of the plain yum update.
> 
> For now I've added "exclude yum" to my /etc/yum.conf but that's a little 
> heavy handed.
> 
> I have one other box that got yum 2.0.5-1.fd.fr.noarch as part of a 
> manual yum update. I can't get to it right now. But, I do recall that it 
> needed rpm --rebuilddb because yum (and/or rpm) started displaying "BAD 
> KEY ID" errors. I'll let you know if there's more to tell about that box.

BAD KEY ID errors are coming from the gpg checking in yum - did this new
yum update replace the yum.conf file and/or enable gpgchecking by
default.

also - why did you think your rpmdb needed to be rebuilt? You've not
reported anything that makes me think an rpmdb needed rebuilding.


-sv