Help on reproducing potential yum bug

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 10:59 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 15:25 +0930, n0dalus wrote:
> > In other words, any successful transaction calls cleanPackages and
> > cleanHeaders, which in turn unlink every file in the 'pkgdir's and
> > 'hdrdir's respectively.
> 
> Yes, making the cleaning on success a little more fine-grained is on my
> todo list both for FC6 final and then also to backport to yum 2.6.x.
> But as Rahul said, there are also apparently cases where even a
> non-successful case is removing things -- or at least, that's what has
> been reported :-)
> 

the finer-grained addition is some pretty straightforward code.

If anyone would like to help out with yum development that's an easy way
to get  your feet wet.

-sv