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Bug 1208803

Summary:	make yum autosave transactions configurable
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	tharrrk
Component:	yum	Assignee:	Valentina Mukhamedzhanova <vmukhame>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Eva Mrakova <emrakova>
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	7.1	CC:	emrakova, james.antill
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:	yum-3.4.3-139.el7	Doc Type:	Enhancement
Doc Text:	Feature: The new config option "autosavets" allows users to configure yum to avoid autosaving transactions. Reason: Sometimes it is preferred that yum doesn't leave any "temporary" files after running. Before this enhancement, whenever yum successfully resolved transaction, but the user chose not to run it, the transaction was saved to disk automatically, to allow the user quickly run it later. Result: With the new "autosavets" boolean config option, users can instruct yum not to autosave transaction files.	Story Points:	---
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Clones:	1339116 (view as bug list)		Environment:
Last Closed:	2016-11-04 05:28:48 UTC	Type:	Bug
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Description tharrrk 2015-04-03 08:54:35 UTC

Description of problem:
First seen this auto-save-transaction "feature" in CentOS7 (yum-3.4.3-125)
I hate it from the first moment. This should be configurable.
Found this https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=684369 as CLOSED NOTABUG. So let it be a feature request.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
yum-3.4.3-125.el7.centos.noarch
CentOS Linux release 7.1.1503 (Core)

How reproducible:
Every time.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run as root 'yum install <any_package>'
2. Answer "N" to "Is this ok?' question

Actual results:
Yum creates file /tmp/yum_save_tx*.yumtx

Expected results:
Should be configurable.
i.e. after setting 'autosavets = 0' in /etc/yum/yum.conf no file should be created.

Additional info:

diff -Nurp /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum.orig/config.py /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/config.py
--- /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum.orig/config.py 2015-03-09 21:39:15.000000000 +0100
+++ /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/config.py      2015-04-03 10:15:20.224220449 +0200
@@ -876,6 +876,7 @@ class YumConf(StartupConf):
     loadts_ignoremissing = BoolOption(False)
     loadts_ignorerpm = BoolOption(False)
     loadts_ignorenewrpm = BoolOption(False)
+    autosavets = BoolOption(True)
     
     clean_requirements_on_remove = BoolOption(False)
 
diff -Nurp /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum.orig/__init__.py /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/__init__.py
--- /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum.orig/__init__.py       2015-03-09 21:39:15.000000000 +0100
+++ /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/__init__.py    2015-04-03 10:32:45.885187304 +0200
@@ -1355,7 +1355,8 @@ much more problems).
             self._depsolving_failed = False
 
         if rescode == 2:
-            self.save_ts(auto=True)
+            if self.conf.autosavets != False:
+                self.save_ts(auto=True)
         self.verbose_logger.debug('Depsolve time: %0.3f' % (time.time() - ds_st))
         return rescode, restring

Comment 5 tharrrk 2016-03-22 18:58:27 UTC

Also appeared in Centos6...

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2016-11-04 05:28:48 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2016-2397.html