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

Neal Becker ndbecker2 at gmail.com
Sat Mar 1 14:47:44 UTC 2008


On Saturday 01 March 2008, seth vidal wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-03-01 at 08:42 -0500, Neal Becker wrote:
> > IIRC, the issue I ran into was that if yum aborted, you were left with
> > multiple versions of packages installed.
> >
> > Perhaps there is another way to handle this?  Sounds like the same sort
> > of technology used in database, or journal file systems.
>
> yum-complete-transaction - which is in yum-utils.
>
> -sv

You guys need better publicity!  I've used yum a lot, for a long time, and 
never heard of this.

Maybe a mention in the yum help or man page?



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