Yum disaster! DELETED mysql!

[Les Mikesell]

On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 06:45, Rahul Sundaram wrote:

> > Ok. Logged in under FC4 and doing a 511Meg yum update now.
> > I DO have the old fateful FC3 yum log. Can't copy it here yet (my nfs 
> > mounts not working yet on the new fc4 upgraded server).
> > But one line of the log reads "installing mysql 3.x"). [Which it 
> > didn't. Just dl'd the RPM's.]
> > And after that, two lines: 1. "erased mysql server". 2. "erased mysql 
> > client".
> > If this ain't a bug, what is?
> 
> If its a bug it should be in bugzilla. File it along with the yum log 
> output. You can also post to the yum devel list if it requires further 
> discussions
> 
> http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/

But whose bug is it when a distro package tries and fails to replace
some non-standard package that isn't even split into the same RPMs?

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  Les Mikesell
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