rawhide report: 20061111 changes - beware of yum !!

[Steve G]

>yum-3.0.1-2.fc7
>---------------
>* Fri Nov 10 2006 Jeremy Katz  - 3.0.1-2
>- yum-updatesd fixes (#213622, #212494, #212507)


Downloading Packages:
(1/1): yum-3.0.1-2.fc7.no 100% |=========================| 479 kB    00:02
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
warning: /etc/yum.conf saved as /etc/yum.conf.rpmsave
  Removing  : yum                          ######################### [1/2]
  Updating  : yum                          ######################### [2/2]

Updated: yum.noarch 0:3.0.1-2.fc7
Complete!
[root at localhost ~]# yum update
CRITICAL:yum.cli:Config Error: Error accessing file for config
file:///etc/yum.conf
[root at localhost ~]# ls -l /etc/ | grep yum
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root    4096 Nov 10 11:56 yum
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     368 Nov  6 11:28 yum.conf.rpmsave
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 Nov 10 11:56 yum.repos.d


Does yum have a download only mode anymore? I think I want to go back to using
just rpm to do updates to see if this is caused by yum or rpm. I've heard rumors
of other critical config files dissappearing by doing yum update.

-Steve


 
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