[Yum-devel] ideas that have come up in the last couple of days

[seth vidal]

On Sat, 2008-03-01 at 08:25 -0500, Neal Becker wrote:
> On Saturday 01 March 2008, seth vidal wrote:
> > On Sat, 2008-03-01 at 08:14 -0500, Neal Becker wrote:
> > > I had advocated for cleaning each package right after installing, which
> > > at the time seemed to get positive responses.  This is what smart does. 
> > > My motivation is from one experience where a big update got aborted,
> > > leaving a mess.
> >
> > Changing the ordering is not such a good idea. If we want to rearrange
> > the transaction ordering I'd rather we do it in rpm.
> >
> Could you elaborate?  What problems do you see?

/sbin/ldconfig issues

scriptlet ordering issues

removing the packages immediately after installing the new ones doesn't
guarantee that your system is in a usable state afterward. So you're in
the same boat as far as an aborted transaction.

It's perfectly possible it will work fine. Though I'm curious if the rpm
devels have a good reason for the ordering as it is now. I seem to
recall that rpm used to do ordering like that and switched away from it
to how it is now. 

Writing our own ordering is do-able - just not sure it is worth the time
it'll take to do it and then make sure it is correct/valid.

-sv