Help on reproducing potential yum bug

Rahul sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Thu Jul 13 06:35:45 UTC 2006


n0dalus wrote:
> On 7/13/06, Rahul <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>>
>> The bug report is not about successful transcations (ie) package being
>> installed, cleaning the cache which is expected behavior with
>> keepcache=0. The problem is with unsuccesful ones cleaning out the
>> cache. An example would be yum failing on file conflicts and removing
>> the packages from cache while it shouldnt.
>>
> 
> Perhaps you misread the bug report. It says that after an error yum
> keeps the cache, but then when performing a subsequent successful
> operation (ie just upgrading a single package) all the packages and
> headers (not just from that single package) are deleted.

This indeed describes a slightly different problem which is described 
better in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=188075

Rahul




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