Help on reproducing potential yum bug

[n0dalus]

On 7/13/06, Rahul <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
> The bug report is not about successful transcations (ie) package being
> installed, cleaning the cache which is expected behavior with
> keepcache=0. The problem is with unsuccesful ones cleaning out the
> cache. An example would be yum failing on file conflicts and removing
> the packages from cache while it shouldnt.
>

Perhaps you misread the bug report. It says that after an error yum
keeps the cache, but then when performing a subsequent successful
operation (ie just upgrading a single package) all the packages and
headers (not just from that single package) are deleted.

>From the bug report:
> 1. yum update (you download lot of updates e.g. 500MB), on transaction test you
> end up with some kind of error or you cancel the operation. Yum keeps the cache.
> 2. You decide at least to update kernel. Using yum update kernel wipes complete
> cache as this operation was successful.

n0dalus.