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[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 09:29 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Monday 17 July 2006 09:12, seth vidal wrote:
> > We know about this problem. And I think I know what is probably the best
> > behavior in this case - it's a matter of doing and testing it.
> >
> > The gist of it is that we write a transaction journal out that records
> > what is not yet finished in the yum transaction. Then if we're
> > interrupted we can recover.
> >
> > If people have code they'd like to contribute email yum-devel list.
> 
> What happens though if yum transaction didn't finish, but then somebody ran 
> the system rpm to do some transactions.  What then happens when yum tries to 
> finish the transaction?
> 

error handling will have to be maintained, too.


You're more-or-less proposing:
 What if someone hoses their box, will we be hosing it further in the
process of trying to unhose it?

-sv