On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 17:42 +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Seth Vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > When this happens you should run: > > yum-complete-transaction > > Interesting toy! I think you mentioned it at Fudcon Boston and I > hadn't been able to recall the right name. > > Thinking of using it in the use case of the school server (very > unreliable power, no sysadmins available, 100% unattended updates) - > > - Is it safe to run at boot time via an init script? as long as the network is up, it should be. > - Is there an easy way to check for pending transactions? yum-complete-transaction checks for them itself > - Does it have useful exit codes indicating whether it's done anything? If the results codes are not good enough we can fix that easily enough. > Is that different from `package-cleanup --problems` ? --problems reports a different set of things - package conflicts and unresolved deps. A dupe is not, implicitly, a problem. it CAN be, but it is not always. -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list