Yum disaster! DELETED mysql!

Nat Gross nat101l at gmail.com
Mon Nov 7 21:14:09 UTC 2005


On 11/7/05, Thomas Cameron <thomas.cameron at camerontech.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 14:58 -0500, Nat Gross wrote:
> > So, why didn't yum do it until now? I have done '#yum -y -update'
> > hundreds of times on this system. I didn't change anything on mysql.
> > um..For some silly reason I have Amarok on this machine. Since the
> > latest version of Amarok uses mysql (so I read) could it be that
> > Amarok told yum to do it.
>
> Very possibly. The thing is, if Amarok uses MySQL, I am betting big
> that according to the FC distro comps.xml file, Amarok uses MySQL 3.x.
> When you updated, yum just did its best to get you up to date according
> the comps.xml file.
>
except that it did not install mysql 3.x. Just dumped the rpm in its cache.
(Good thing [for my data!]it didn't install 3.x.)
-nat
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