On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 09:29 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Monday 17 July 2006 09:12, seth vidal wrote: > > We know about this problem. And I think I know what is probably the best > > behavior in this case - it's a matter of doing and testing it. > > > > The gist of it is that we write a transaction journal out that records > > what is not yet finished in the yum transaction. Then if we're > > interrupted we can recover. > > > > If people have code they'd like to contribute email yum-devel list. > > What happens though if yum transaction didn't finish, but then somebody ran > the system rpm to do some transactions. What then happens when yum tries to > finish the transaction? > error handling will have to be maintained, too. You're more-or-less proposing: What if someone hoses their box, will we be hosing it further in the process of trying to unhose it? -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list