May I safely execute yum-complete-transaction?

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 17:01 -0400, Clemens Eisserer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I had a power shortage while I ran "yum update". After booting up, yum
> told me to run yum-complete-transaction.
> 
> However yum-complete-transaction reported (see attachement), it would:
> Install       7 Package(s)
> Upgrade     205 Package(s)
> Remove      209 Package(s)
> 
> So I canceld, afraid of having a lot of stiff accidentially removed.
> 
> Is it safe to let yum-complete-transaction continue?

How can we possibly know? If you need to Install/Upgrade/Remove the
respective numbers of packages (e.g. you haven't run yum upgrade in a
while and you're using Rawhide), then yes. Otherwise no.

poc