Help on reproducing potential yum bug

Rahul sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Thu Jul 13 06:56:19 UTC 2006


Rahul wrote:
> 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

Ah. I didnt explain that right. The problem I was trying to reproduce is 
better described in the above bug report. My original mail refers to a 
slightly different issue.

Rahul




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