Re: Yesterday's rawhide sunk my iBook

[Florian La Roche <laroche redhat com>]

On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 01:37:40PM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 18:30 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 13:11 -0400, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> > > If you have 2 versions installed.. and the latest version was an
> > > upgrade attempt via yum.. it sounds like there was a problem that
> > > prevented the cleanup portion of the rpm transaction from completing
> > > correctly.
> > 
> > I see this kind of thing quite often. It doesn't help that yum will
> > often leave quite a lot of time between installing the new version of a
> > given package and uninstalling the old one. 
> > 
> 
> yum does a ts.order() - it's using rpm's transaction ordering - how
> would you like for yum to speed up that time?

What about the cleanup scripts or removing old files? Looks to me
like all that is only done at the very end right now. Maybe completing
individual package updates in one step before updating the next
package should be an option for users.

greetings,

Florian La Roche