Re: Yesterday's rawhide sunk my iBook

[seth vidal <skvidal phy duke edu>]

On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 13:39 -0400, Dimi Paun wrote:
> From: "seth vidal" <skvidal phy duke edu>
> > yum does a ts.order() - it's using rpm's transaction ordering - how
> > would you like for yum to speed up that time?
> 
> Speaking of which, if things are left behind in case of a problem,
> this is not very transactional, is it?
> 
> Obviously, this is not yum's fault, but rather RPM's -- shouldn't
> RPM transactions be a bit more ACID?

a lot easier said than done.

it's not just a db transaction - it's also a fs and script transaction.
Often time lots of the %scriptlets can't be reversed.

-sv