Yum disaster! DELETED mysql!

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 11:38 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> 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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it falls back upon the user who passed the '-y' to the yum update
command which afforded the user no opportunity to review the changes to
be made.

Craig


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