Yum is going berserk!

[JD]

On 06/03/2012 10:00 PM, Vikram Goyal wrote:
> Well, it happened with me once in F16 when the system went down 
> without being attached to a UPS & updating.
>
> I also cringed when I opted for yum complete transaction & it showed a 
> number of packages to be deleted.
>
> I did it & found that the packages to be deleted were the older 
> versions which had not been deleted after update since the transaction 
> had been stopped in the middle itself.
>
> So maybe it is the previous version packages that are slated to be 
> deleted & nothing more.
>
>
I confirm identical behavior of yum when I rebooted before yum had finished,
as it was on a different workspace, and I had forgotten all about it.