Les Mikesell wrote:
Another thought about how things could be improved: make yum capable of rolling back to undo it's last update. Then unless yum itself breaks or you can't boot even to the saved previous kernel, you could be adventurous with installing new code without too much danger of killing your system completely.
http://blog.chris.tylers.info/index.php?/archives/17-How-to-Rollback-Package-UpdatesInstallation-on-Fedora.html Rahul