Re: yum and apt differences.

[seth vidal <skvidal phy duke edu>]

On Sat, 2004-02-21 at 17:49 +0800, John Lin wrote:

> It seems that yum have some little problem with 3 of my installations of
> Fedora. When any package install breaks, it assumes those remaining
> packages are installed, but they are actually not. It some how marked
> those packages installed if anything failed during rpm install. When I
> execute 'yum install failed-package.rpm', it said it is already
> installed. When I did 'apt-get install failed-package.rpm', it started
> the installation of that package. This is weird.
> 
> This creates some problem for me. Anything that I am doing wrong? or
> there are some bug with yum..?
> 

What version of yum are you seeing this on? Just to be sure you're see:

yum install foo bar baz

during the install foo fails and yum exits - yum is reporting that bar
and baz succeeds? Can you demonstrate this behavior?

what version of rhl? what version of rpm?

-sv