Thank you, unknown genius!
Anton Solovyev
anton at solovyev.com
Thu Apr 10 20:28:28 UTC 2008
Matthew Miller wrote:
>> (Just like all tools of similar nature) yum has a good potential of killing
>> your system when something unexpected happens. I have had yum kill a box at
>> least once after something like terminal session timeout or a ctrl-c.
>> Something to the effect of leaving two versions of each package with the
>> subsequent destruction of the system on the attempt to remove the
>> duplicates. I am sure it was my fault, of course.
>
> The suggestion of running from screen is good, but even then something bad
> could happen. But, in the event that it does, next time try
> yum-complete-transaction from the yum-utils package.
I just don't use yum. I had a short moment of weakness some years ago (wanted a
new kernel or something), but I was quickly cured by the above mentioned event.
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Anton Solovyev
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