Re: SUG: Automatic RPM database verification and repair

[Jeff Johnson <n3npq jbj gmail com>]

On Nov 29, 2006, at 6:20 PM, seth vidal wrote:

> I'm not saying yum does guarantee those. I'm asking why does the above
> cause the rpmdb to have errors?

Dunno (yet), there are likely several intersecting causes.

No matter what, yum should go back to last known good. It's easier  
debugging,
and seemed to work at some point in time.

The only reason that I've heard for the open-extract-close change is  
to handle
signals within yum, and that can easily be achieved in other ways.  
Nasrat has
details.

As I tried to tell you in 2004 ...

... but you stopped listening.

73 de Jeff