[Server-devel] recover from broken yum transaction

[John Watlington]

On Sep 11, 2008, at 11:01 AM, Seth Vidal wrote:

> On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 17:42 +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Seth Vidal  
>> <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>>> When this happens you should run:
>>> yum-complete-transaction
>>
>> Interesting toy! I think you mentioned it at Fudcon Boston and I
>> hadn't been able to recall the right name.
>>
>> Thinking of using it in the use case of the school server (very
>> unreliable power, no sysadmins available, 100% unattended updates) -
>>
>>  - Is it safe to run at boot time via an init script?
>
> as long as the network is up, it should be.

I assume you mean "as long as the server has an Internet connection
to the yum repositories" ?    Or did you mean "as long as the networking
subsystem is up" ?

This may be a show stopper for us, as plenty of servers won't have a  
reliable
network connection to the Internet.

Thanks!
wad