On Friday October 26 2007 1:17:30 pm Michael Semcheski wrote: > On 10/26/07, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 26/10/2007, Michael Semcheski <mhsemcheski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I am the OP... Just making light of the situation. Its > > > ironic to me that I need to hunt down dependencies to > > > install yum. > > > > Only because you've killed several core packages like RPM. > > I'm glad you brought that up. Do you have any idea how that > could have happened? (I'm 85% sure) the last thing I did was > run 'yum -y update'. > > I'm very interested in preventing this from happening in the > future. But how? Don't run yum -y That just lets it go into robot mode - all confirmation queries in the normal yum process are answered with an auto 'y' key code. If you don't use the -y option, you get a confirmation dialog which you can minimally glance at and see if anything's amiss - it will tell you if it's going to remove something and give you the chance to say no. -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD, USA -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
