F13/i686: yum update emptied /boot, /bin, /lib, etc.

[Seth Vidal]

On Fri, 23 Apr 2010, Jim Meyering wrote:

> Frank Murphy wrote:
>> On 22/04/10 22:01, Jim Meyering wrote:
>>> There was only one: history-2010-03-08.sqlite
>>> BZ-attached here:
>>>
>>> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/584997
>>
>> Read up on:
>> yum-plugin-protect-packages
>>
>> if your going on autopilot.
>
> Thanks.  Installed.
> IMHO, one should always be able to run "yum -y update" without fear
> of such damage.  Maybe that's naive, but with the exception of
> yesterday's run, it's worked for me for more than two years of
> rawhide and F10..F13.

except we don't know what happened yesterday.

You didn't happen to keep the depsolving output on the console did you?

Also - were there any plugins installed?

-sv