Yum disaster! DELETED mysql!
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at redhat.com
Wed Nov 9 18:22:24 UTC 2005
Les Mikesell wrote:
>On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 06:45, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
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>>>Ok. Logged in under FC4 and doing a 511Meg yum update now.
>>>I DO have the old fateful FC3 yum log. Can't copy it here yet (my nfs
>>>mounts not working yet on the new fc4 upgraded server).
>>>But one line of the log reads "installing mysql 3.x"). [Which it
>>>didn't. Just dl'd the RPM's.]
>>>And after that, two lines: 1. "erased mysql server". 2. "erased mysql
>>>client".
>>>If this ain't a bug, what is?
>>>
>>>
>>If its a bug it should be in bugzilla. File it along with the yum log
>>output. You can also post to the yum devel list if it requires further
>>discussions
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>>http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/
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>But whose bug is it when a distro package tries and fails to replace
>some non-standard package that isn't even split into the same RPMs?
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When this is reported it that can be analysed and the blame
appropriately assigned to the mysql packages, yum or the user ;-)
regards
Rahul
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