Craig White wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 15:05 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
>
>> Once yum is basically working you might be able to
>> yum install yum-utils
>> and
>> yum-complete-transaction
>> to pick up where you left off. I had to do this on one box where the
>> update process kicked me off and died with a bunch of duplicate packages
>> still in the rpm database.
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> me too...punished for not using screen to update.
I sort-of expected yum to be smart enough to trap sighup's during
transactions. And I think the connection broke because the process
underneath died - so screen would probably have croaked too.
> yum-complete-transaction actually required a leap of faith because there
> were hundreds of packages it wanted to remove ;-)
Same here... I did do a sanity check with rpm -q package for some of
them to see that two versions were actually there (or rpm thought there
were).
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Les Mikesell
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