On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 3:01 AM, Seth Vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> - Is it safe to run at boot time via an init script? > as long as the network is up, it should be. That is not very useful for us. I don't worry so much about the machine being killed in the 'download stuff' part, bit AFAIK that's not part of the 'transaction'. When yum-complete-transaction is called, I am expecting it to work with the RPMs it has, and ensure anything it was trying to do gets done... WRT networking, in places like Peru my rule of thumb is that 50% of the servers will _not_ have internet. Package installations / upgrades are very likely to happen by sending out USB keys with a bunch of RPMs, and a GPG-signed script that triggers the yum process. yum supports -C... can yum-complete-transaction support -C as well? >> - Is there an easy way to check for pending transactions? > > yum-complete-transaction checks for them itself Yes, though it's useful to be able to check that for logging/reporting... >> - 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. I am asking because checking the manpage and reading the source did not give me any hints as to exit codes. Neither does 'man yum' talk about exit codes except for the "check-update" command. So I wonder what's the expected behaviour WRT exit codes for yum? >> 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. Right - that's lower priority for my use cases. Thanks for the hint. cheers, m -- martin.langhoff@xxxxxxxxx martin@xxxxxxxxxx -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
