Yum disaster! DELETED mysql!

[Jeff Vian]

On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 17:12 -0500, Tony Nelson wrote:
> At 3:26 PM -0500 11/7/05, Nat Gross wrote:
> >Yep. I assumed that -y was for updates only.
> >Anyhow, how do you go about without the -y option? Sit and wait for 50
> >updates? (I must admit, all the time I save with -y is out the window
> >today.)
> 
> Perhaps you should bugzilla yum with a RFE on this, that it would be useful
> to have a way to say "yes" just to updates.

Yes, but you have to have a 'standard' definition of updates.

My definition is that all packages should be updated to the latest
available level, and all dependencies resolved and handled.  That will
include removal of obsolete packages as well.

Your definition may be different.

There is one additional peculiarity I have seen with yum that has not
been mentioned here.  Sometimes yum will download a long list of
packages to update, but then only do part of them.  Repeating the update
will update the remainder without any additional downloads.  An
irritation but not a real problem otherwise, and it has improved over
time.