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

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 14:34 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 02:35:11PM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> So it's likely an rpmlib bug?

I don't know. It _could be_ but I can't say that with any amount of
certainty.


> > 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.
> 
> I can't get it to reoccur on purpose. But, if the instrumentation can be
> added in a semi-transparent manner, I'm willing to put it on all our systems
> here so that if/when it happens next we'll have that result.


I can probably give you a patch which writes out a bunch of debug data
to a file.

after it happens I'd just need that file.

-sv