[CentOS] yum yum or not?

Thu Apr 26 21:08:08 UTC 2012
Ljubomir Ljubojevic <office at plnet.rs>

On 04/26/2012 05:45 PM, Jason Pyeron wrote:
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Shaun
>> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 11:34
>>
>> On 26/04/2012 15:58, Les Mikesell wrote:
>>> You can't really generalize about that.  Yum just does what the
>>> dependencies of the rpm packages you install or remove tell
>> it to do.
>>>   A "yum groupinstall 'GNOME Desktop Environment'" might bring back
>>> anything  that is missing.
>>>
>>
>> Well I was kinda expecting it to not remove the shared
>> dependencies leaving GNOME fairly broken.
>
> There have been times where RHEL rpms do not list the needed dependencies (or
> lis the wrong ones). If you can articulate which packages were removed (check
> you logs) and what the remove should have done a bug can be filed.
>

yum history list
yum history info <number given transaction>

and
yum history undo
yum history redo,
...
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