rawhide report: 20061111 changes - beware of yum !!

[Tom London]

On 11/11/06, Steve G <linux_4ever at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >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
>
Try reverting rpm packages (rpm, rpm-libs, rpm-python, rpm-devel,
rpm-build) to 4.4.2-32 and see if that fixes this. Perhaps this is
similar to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=196590

tom
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Tom London