Distrowatch: What went wrong with Fedora Core 4

[Michael A. Peters]

On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 19:18 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Thursday 14 July 2005 18:45, Justin Zygmont wrote:
> >No, don't discuss this any further.  This is far off topic, and has
> >wasted enough time already.
> 
> Well, from my own experience, I do believe its a valid question.
> 
> Look, sometimes an ego is going to get bruised, even if its mine 
> because I didn't read all the caveats, or hold my chew in the correct 
> side of my mouth, any one of a thousand things.  But when one 
> application (yum) consistently fubars the system, I don't care whose 
> ego is bruised, it still needs to be fixed.  If I'm running it wrong, 
> then so be it, I can be directed.

yum has never messed up my system.

> 
> But first, I have to get somebodies attention so they can tell me 
> where I screwed up if indeed I did.
> 
> Put this way, I let yum update 290 some packages.  To get that far, I 
> had to mv Pubkeys and rebuild the rpm database to restore it.  When 
> it was done, the kernel it installed won't boot, and when booted to 
> the older version, now X complains it doesn't have perms to run, and 
> I'm root doing the startx.  If those facts bruise an ego, then I'm 
> sorry, but it doesn't change the FACTS.

Those don't sound like yum bugs to me - sound like bugs in either the
software or the packages. Or am I missing something?