[Yum-devel] clean up sooner

[Pekka Pietikainen]

On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 03:43:52PM -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> > 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. 
Yes please. There's nothing to ruin your day worse than a remote 1000
package yum update where your ssh hangs midway -> yum exits -> you end up
with dupes in your rpm database, and repomanage + rpm -Uvh --force *.rpm
tricks in the cache directory is to clear things up.

(I started always running yum under screen because of this :D )