On 21 Mar 2003, seth vidal wrote: > right - my goal would be to probably implement two things > 1. the retrying thing > 2. maybe a command "yum sanitycheck" - so it runs through and > sanitychecks all the headers, throws out old ones, etc. Sounds like a good plan to me. > Well I talked to jeff some about this - he seemed to tell me that I > should indeed just rm the __db files before a write operation in yum > until the NPTL stuff get settled out. Is there a downside to killing the files?? I am not aware of any but... > > If he wasn't being sarcastic it's not terribly hard to unlink those > files right before the ts is run. Hummmm, sounds like figuring out if it is sarcasm or not is the hardest part. :-) Thanks, -- .............Tom "Nothing would please me more than being able to tdiehl@xxxxxxxxxxxx hire ten programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software." -- Bill Gates 1976 We are still waiting ....