[Yum-devel] clean up sooner

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 14:55 -0500, Neal Becker wrote:
> I got bitten today by massive FC5 rawhide update.  Because of a kernel bug, 
> gcj-dbtool hung when trying to update.  I had to kill yum.  Afterwards, I 
> could not restart yum due to dep problems.  I tracked this down to having a 
> bunch of duplicate versions left.
> 
> I noticed when using smart-pm for update, that it does:
> 
> install x
> clean x
> install y
> clean y
> 
> 
> I wonder if yum would avoid some problems by cleaning old packages sooner?  
> (I'm just guessing here that smart 'clean' means removing old package).

It means changing around the sort order for a transaction. Right now yum
uses rpm's transaction sort. 

Paul,  what are your thoughts on the above with the new sorting code?

-sv