On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 12:44 AM, Robert G. Brown <rgb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dear yumsters,
OK, yum was interrupted (probably by an urgent powerout shutdown) on a
small notebook computer I'm installing and had "uncompleted
transactions". I ran yum-complete-transactions and it announced that
what it wanted to do was remove 193 odd packages from the system, all of
them critical to system functionality at first glance.
Safe or not safe? yum update is otherwise clean -- are these old
packages that yum needs to remove, or did yum get caught in a bizarre
state where it is getting ready to trash my system by removing enough
core that I'd have to reinstall (a major PITA)?
rgb
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It should be safe.
This is because updating foo-1.0 to foo-2.0 is a 2 step process.
1. install foo-2.0
2. cleaup after foo-1.0 ( files not overwritten by foo-2.0 is erased)
If the process is aborted between 1 and 2, then all the cleanup has not been executed and when you run yum-complete-transactions then yum
will continue where it was aborted by doing all the cleanup and removing the old package versions.
package-cleanup --dupes will show you a lot of duplicate packages because the old versions is still in the rpm db.
after running yum-complete-transactions
then then dupes should be gone.
Tim
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