Thank you, unknown genius!

[Matthew Miller]

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 09:49:34AM -0600, Anton Solovyev wrote:
> (Just like all tools of similar nature) yum has a good potential of killing 
> your system when something unexpected happens. I have had yum kill a box at 
> least once after something like terminal session timeout or a ctrl-c. 
> Something to the effect of leaving two versions of each package with the 
> subsequent destruction of the system on the attempt to remove the 
> duplicates. I am sure it was my fault, of course.

The suggestion of running from screen is good, but even then something bad
could happen. But, in the event that it does, next time try
yum-complete-transaction from the yum-utils package.

> (I am a little vague there, but I think older Redhats had some other tool 
> for getting updates and that one was a bit more robust)

The problem here is at the rpmlib level so there's little any higher-level
tool can do.



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