Detective work on dupes

[Konstantin Svist]

On 12/13/2011 07:45 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 18:35:40 -0800,
>    Konstantin Svist<fry.kun at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> I've gotten burned while removing duplicates in the past.
> package-cleanup --cleandupes will normally work pretty well. There can be
> some problems if there were packages not updated as part of a broken
> transaction. You want to keep track of what was removed so you can put stuff
> back if need be.
>
> If you notice right away when a transaction goes bad, you want to run
> yum-complete-transaction, as that will finish adding packages for the
> transaction before it starts removing stuff. If too much stuff has
> changed before you try this you may not be able to just finish the
> transaction.
>

yum-complete-transaction is what got me into the biggest problem that time. I'm not chancing it again :)