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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