Up2Date looses installed packages during update (showstopper?)

[Michael K. Johnson]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 09:22:50AM +0100, Michael Ring wrote:
> I used up2date yesterday and it had to update about 20 packages.
> 
> During it installation of kernel-source up2date died because it could 
> not install the package. The problem now is, that all packages that 
> where to be installed after kernel-source are de-installed!
> 
> Now, on my system openoffice and, of course, kernel-source are missing! 
> There were another 10 packages that might not be there, but 
> unfortunately I updated in a console window so there is no scrollback 
> buffer available to find out what other packages are missing.

/var/log/rpmpkgs* tell you what packages you used to have installed.

michaelkjohnson

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