[Yum] yum shell transaction sets

[Alexander 'Leo' Bergolth]

On 12/21/2008 06:49 PM, Alexander 'Leo' Bergolth wrote:
> On 12/20/2008 03:13 PM, seth vidal wrote:
>> On Sat, 2008-12-20 at 01:22 +0100, Alexander 'Leo' Bergolth wrote:
>>> I'm trying to do a distro-upgrade using yum.
>>>
>>> However I'm experiencing a problem replacing a package in the yum shell
>>> transaction:
>>>
>>> I tried the following commands:
>>> -------------------- 8< --------------------
>>> erase java-1.6.0-sun-compat jdk
>>> install java-1.6.0-openjdk
>>> upgrade
>>> -------------------- 8< --------------------
>>>
>>> But the upgrade command seems the place java-1.6.0-sun-compat in the
>>> list of packages to upgrade again. Now it is found both in the list of
>>> packages to update and remove!
> [...]
> If it's ok, maybe other commands like erase or install should also
> modify potentially existing transaction set members?

Here is my naive approach of removing existing transaction set entries
when doing an install or erase. It works, at least for the common cases.

I hope you'll find it useful...

Cheers,
--leo
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