rpm questions

[James Olin Oden]

On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, seth vidal wrote:

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> > Cause for inconsistancy: For me - yum broke (it just hanged haflway
> > through).  I was in 'strace' - and didn't know here it was hanging -
> > so I used Ctrl-C - which left duplicate entries in rpmdb for some
> > packages. Perhaps glibc change somehow messed up rpm underneath? I
> > intend to do a fresh install fo FC2test3 on this machine - will see
> > how things go..
> 
> an rpm update is a two step process internally
> first it installs the new package
> second it erases the old one 
> 
> if it died half way through you'll have some old packages sitting
> around.
>
And this is of course what the autorollback patch mostly cleans up 
automatically (-:

Cheers..james 
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