Did anyone's F20 system randomly "reboot" after updating from updates-testing just recently?

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Fri Jan 17 01:51:57 UTC 2014


On 2014-01-16 15:59, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 10:56:16AM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
>> On Thu, 2014-01-16 at 10:07 -0700, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
>> >
>> > This, for a change, leaves you with an asorted leftover files lying
>> > around.
>> 
>> Only if the package's manifest changed between the versions being
>> upgraded 'from' and 'to' in the update that failed.
> 
> This happens more often then you think.  Try 'rpm -qd <package>'.  A
> serious chances are that if you just removed a duplicate only from an
> rpm database then the whole directory in /usr/share/doc/ got orphaned.
> Not, not always but often enough.  There are numerous other situations
> when a corresponding manifest changed between versions.  A layout
> changed, for example.
> 
> On the long run I'd rather not to have various orphaned files lying
> around.  Maybe there are innocuous but I prefer not to spent my time
> thinking about it.

Well, up until you mentioned it, I wasn't spending my time thinking 
about it either. ;)
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