Yesterday's rawhide sunk my iBook
Michael Schroeder
mls at suse.de
Fri Jul 29 10:52:38 UTC 2005
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 01:42:52PM -0400, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> A lot of time... would mean you are doing a lot of updates. You'd
> rather yum do install/clean up one package at a time? I think that
> leads to a whole other nest of problems. I don't even think cli rpm
> does updates that way when you give it a big list of packages to
> update.
Well, old rpm versions used to do the uninstall right after the install.
I don't know why it was changed, the new way has some big disadvantages,
for example you get lots of duplicate packages if rpm exits in the
middle of the update.
Cheers,
Michael.
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