yum reoprts - package Installed - but it wasn't

[Radek Vokál]

Hi

This is not very nice yum behavior. On my FC3 box, yum reports that
packages were successfully installed but due to problems with
transaction lock they actually weren't. It's confusing and yum should
report something more meaningful. I guess this is already fixed in
rawhide, but would be great to have it fixed in FC3 also. Here's my
output 

Dependencies Resolved
Transaction Listing:
   Install: beecrypt-devel.i386 0:3.1.0-6 - base
   Install: elfutils-devel.i386 0:0.96-1 - base
   Install: elfutils-libelf-devel.i386 0:0.96-1 - base
Total download size: 437 k
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
(1/3): elfutils-libelf-de 100% |=========================|  50 kB
00:01
(2/3): beecrypt-devel-3.1 100% |=========================| 358 kB
00:02
(3/3): elfutils-devel-0.9 100% |=========================|  29 kB
00:00
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
error: can't create transaction lock

Installed: beecrypt-devel.i386 0:3.1.0-6 elfutils-devel.i386 0:0.96-1 
elfutils-libelf-devel.i386 0:0.96-1
Complete!
root at taz ~# echo $?
0
root at taz ~# rpm -q beecrypt-devel
package beecrypt-devel is not installed

root at taz ~# rpm -q yum
yum-2.2.2-0.fc3


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Radek Vokál <radekvokal at gmail.com>