[Yum] verifying Yum updates

[seth vidal]

On Sun, 2005-05-08 at 18:51 -0400, Brett Hall wrote:
> A couple questions about Yum's functionality:
> 1. Is there a way to generate a log report that aggregates results on
> a LAN of machines which had updates to fail?  If so, can the results
> be exported to a syslog server or email list? 

not at the moment but it's on the todo list.


> 2. Does YUM do anything to check that the update actually took place
> as intended and was completed? For example, automated patching tools
> check names, file size, registry (for Windows) etc to verify that the
> change actually took place as intended. Sometimes, for example, in
> Windows, the registry will be updated even if the file wasnt, giving a
> false positive on the update. 

Not really. You can run rpm -Va after yum runs to find out.


>  3. What would I see in the log if an update failedsay it crashed or
> was turned off during the update, or was simply offline at the time.

if the system crashes when anything is going on what generally happens?
Nothing gets reported - it's in the nature of a system crash that you
cannot get log information from it.

-sv