[CentOS] Yum-complete-transaction wants to wipe my system out
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Wed Jun 3 12:29:53 UTC 2009
Eduardo Grosclaude wrote:
> After some enabling/disabling new repos (pgdg for PostgreSQL
> specifically) and admittedly some yum action that may have gone
> uncompleted, I am advised to run yum-complete-transaction. However,
> when I attempt to do this, yum warns that 225 packages will be erased,
> all of which I deeply care for. How can I safely back out of this
> situation?
> Thank you in advance
Do an 'rpm -q packagename' for some or all of the packages in question
to see if you have duplicates installed (or rpm thinks you do). I had
this happen on one machine where yum crashed during the 5.3 upgrade and
there really were many duplicates left in the rpm database and
yum-complete-transaction did the right thing in removing them, even
though it was bit scary to do remotely.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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