On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 19:18 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 14 July 2005 18:45, Justin Zygmont wrote: > >No, don't discuss this any further. This is far off topic, and has > >wasted enough time already. > > Well, from my own experience, I do believe its a valid question. > > Look, sometimes an ego is going to get bruised, even if its mine > because I didn't read all the caveats, or hold my chew in the correct > side of my mouth, any one of a thousand things. But when one > application (yum) consistently fubars the system, I don't care whose > ego is bruised, it still needs to be fixed. If I'm running it wrong, > then so be it, I can be directed. yum has never messed up my system. > > But first, I have to get somebodies attention so they can tell me > where I screwed up if indeed I did. > > Put this way, I let yum update 290 some packages. To get that far, I > had to mv Pubkeys and rebuild the rpm database to restore it. When > it was done, the kernel it installed won't boot, and when booted to > the older version, now X complains it doesn't have perms to run, and > I'm root doing the startx. If those facts bruise an ego, then I'm > sorry, but it doesn't change the FACTS. Those don't sound like yum bugs to me - sound like bugs in either the software or the packages. Or am I missing something?
