Yum disaster! DELETED mysql!

[Nat Gross]

On 11/7/05, Kenneth Porter <shiva at sewingwitch.com> wrote:
>
> --On Monday, November 07, 2005 2:27 PM -0600 Thomas Cameron
> <thomas.cameron at camerontech.com> wrote:
>
> > Very possibly. The thing is, if Amarok uses MySQL, I am betting big
> > that according to the FC distro comps.xml file, Amarok uses MySQL 3.x.
> > When you updated, yum just did its best to get you up to date according
> > the comps.xml file.
>
> Does yum downgrade packages? I've installed RPMs with a higher version
> than
> what's available from my configured repos (typically packages I've built
> myself), and haven't seen yum try to replace them with down-level
> packages.
>
> I'm suspecting that there's something fishy about the version information
> in the installed package that caused yum to think the repo package was a
> higher version. Was it installed from tarball, bypassing RPM, perhaps?


The installed pkg, mysql 4.1x was done from an RPM, but without yum.
You do bring out an important point. -y would not be that dangerous if YUM
behaved. Yum *was* the culprit!
Thanks;
-nat
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