Bug 41072 - Don't tell to run yum-complete-transaction, just do it!
Summary: Don't tell to run yum-complete-transaction, just do it!
Status: RESOLVED NOTOURBUG
Alias: None
Product: PackageKit
Classification: Unclassified
Component: backend-yum (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other All
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Assignee: Richard Hughes
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Reported: 2011-09-21 02:14 UTC by Milan Bouchet-Valat
Modified: 2011-10-16 03:29 UTC (History)
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Description Milan Bouchet-Valat 2011-09-21 02:14:08 UTC 
Today my updates failed while installing a new kernel because I had not enough free space. gnome-packagekit told me there was a transaction error ("what the hell is a transaction?" asks the normal user), and that I needed to run yum-complete-transaction. Why can't the program do it by itself? Most users will never find out how to run this, and give up.

(Debian/Ubuntu has the same problem when you need to run apt-get -f install, but that's not an excuse...)

This is on Fedora 15, with 0.6.17-1.fc15.
Comment 1 Richard Hughes 2011-09-21 02:35:01 UTC 
(In reply to comment #0)
> Why can't the program do it by itself? Most users
> will never find out how to run this, and give up.

I agree, it's less than ideal. The yum developers asked PK not to run yum-complete-transactions automatically as the output ought to be reviewed as y-c-t can't be trusted not to remove every package on your filesystem.
Comment 2 Milan Bouchet-Valat 2011-09-21 02:40:26 UTC 
Ah, so that's what I 'm now experiencing... :-/ So the bug is in yum-complete-transactions.
Comment 3 Milan Bouchet-Valat 2011-10-16 03:29:21 UTC 
Closing this one since we'd first need to fix yum in Fedora.

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