Steve,
Steven Timm wrote on 11/12/2009 3:03 PM:
On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, P. Larry Nelson wrote:
[snip...]
The concerned part: I know I can easily install yum-utils (now that
I know about it), but why is it not included in SL, and more importantly
is there a possibility that something gets screwed up by *not* running
yum-complete-transaction, when my SL5 yum says to? Instead, I ignored
that and just went ahead with a 'yum update' and as far as I can tell,
things are ok.
If yum update exited clean then you are good to go, no
yum-complete-transaction is necessary.
Steve
Nope, all 3 systems that hung on the update still needed a dose of
yum-complete-transaction.
I decided to 'yum install yum-utils' on the 3 and in doing so, yum
informed me that I had unfinished transactions. So, after installing
the yum-utils, I ran 'yum-complete-transaction' and 3 packages (popt,
cups-libs, and nfs-utils-lib) apparently had not completed what they
needed to do when yum hung. I believe it had not erased the old
versions of these 3 packages.
IMO, yum-utils should be part of the default yum package for SL.
Is there a good reason they are not? [Troy/Connie question]
Thanks again!
- Larry
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