[Yum] bizarre yum badness -- packages removed instead of updated...

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 09:29 +0300, Tuomo Soini wrote:
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> Matthew Miller wrote:
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> > Has anyone seen anything this?
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> > By the way, in this latest case, the problem showed up when someone ran "yum
> > update" manually -- not just via our automatic script.
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> My latest yum pkg update did same. It removed old yum pkg and installed
> new on several systems resulting yum.conf changing to default one.
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> Oct 06 11:04:19 Erased: yum
> Oct 06 11:04:22 Updated: yum.noarch 2.6.1-9.4.foo
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> Notice: This happens with yum-2.6.1 on rhel-4 clone.
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> Is this known bug and is there fix for this?
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It's been reported but it's not been fixed, no.

The thing I can't figure out is that at the point where the transaction
occurs we've handed off all the control to rpmlib.

I can think of some instrumentation we could add to find out what the
tsInfo object looks like before the transaction if you can get it to
reoccur.

-sv