On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, P. Larry Nelson wrote:

Hi Steve, starting a new thread here as this has segued off the
original subject.

Steven Timm wrote on 11/12/2009 1:59 PM:
It's part of the yum-utils rpm which is not
installed by default in SL but is available via yum install
If you're running a Red Hat 5 system (as opposed to SL5)
it's indispensable to have yum-complete-transaction; you end
up using it a lot.

Steve

So, now I'm a bit curious and concerned.

The curious part:  What is it about yumming in RHEL 5, and apparently
not in SL5, that makes yum-complete-transaction indispensable?  :-)

If you are using "pup" from redhat (instead of yum update which
they also provide) it has a big chance to crash particularly on
major updates.. that was where yum-complete-transaction came in handy.

The concerned part:  I know I can easily install yum-utils (now that
I know about it), but why is it not included in SL, and more importantly
is there a possibility that something gets screwed up by *not* running
yum-complete-transaction, when my SL5 yum says to?  Instead, I ignored
that and just went ahead with a 'yum update' and as far as I can tell,
things are ok.

If yum update exited clean then you are good to go, no yum-complete-transaction is necessary.

Steve


- Larry


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