update mechanism for new releases

[Seth Vidal]

On Wed, 24 Jun 2009, Rahul Sundaram wrote:

> On 06/24/2009 01:42 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 9:10 PM, Mathieu Bridon
>> (bochecha)<bochecha at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>>> RPM has seen a lot of improvements in speed and memory consumption
>>
>> Are there any improvements on recovery of unexpectedly failed
>> transactions, such as OOM, kernel oops or hard power-off?
>
> I think such questions can be better answered in the RPM upstream
> mailing list. It would be good for you to bring your concerns there.
>
> http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-maint
>
> I am sure the RPM developers would be very interested in them. It is not
> true that RPM/Yum developers treat mid transaction failures as
> insolvable problems.
>

they're not insolvable - they are just very very very hard.

-sv