Bug 584997

Summary: "yum -y --skip-broken --nogpgcheck upgrade" removes(!?) all packages
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jim Meyering <meyering>
Component: yum-langpacksAssignee: Jens Petersen <petersen>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 13CC: ffesti, i18n-bugs, james.antill, maxamillion, mtasaka, pahan, petersen, pmatilai, rmj, tim.lauridsen
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sole file from /var/lib/yum/history/
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Description Jim Meyering 2010-04-22 20:58:00 UTC 
Description of problem: yum somehow uninstalled all packages


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): whatever
version was current in F13 on April 21.

How reproducible: don't know


Steps to Reproduce:
1. yum -y --skip-broken --nogpgcheck upgrade
2. discover that /bin has been removed, along with many other things
3.
  
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attacing the single file from /var/lib/yum/history/, ...
Comment 1 Jim Meyering 2010-04-22 20:59:00 UTC 
P.S., reported in more detail here:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.devel/132063
Comment 2 Jim Meyering 2010-04-22 21:00:14 UTC 
Created attachment 408444 [details]
sole file from /var/lib/yum/history/
Comment 3 seth vidal 2010-04-22 21:17:02 UTC 
Jim,
 Can you also tar up /var/lib/yum/yumdb/ and attach it?

thanks
Comment 4 seth vidal 2010-04-22 21:31:46 UTC 
I have a theory I can't prove yet - but I bet this is --skip-broken removing pkgs from being updated and NOT removing their erasure component.
Comment 5 Jim Meyering 2010-04-23 06:29:32 UTC 
Created attachment 408505 [details]
tarball of /var/lib/yum/yumdb contents
Comment 6 Tim Lauridsen 2010-04-23 11:33:15 UTC 
(In reply to comment #4)
> I have a theory I can't prove yet - but I bet this is --skip-broken removing
> pkgs from being updated and NOT removing their erasure component.    

This is why _checkMissingObsoleted & _checkUpdatedLeftovers was added to handle leftover erasure components, so this should not happen in F13.
Comment 7 Mamoru TASAKA 2010-04-23 12:22:23 UTC 
Same as bug 561928?
Comment 8 Tim Lauridsen 2010-04-23 13:15:09 UTC 
(In reply to comment #7)
> Same as bug 561928?    

No, it is another issues, fixed here

http://yum.baseurl.org/gitweb?p=yum.git;a=commit;h=f8c15289427c24130a7cdf5bf2f9eb524fc3fa19
Comment 9 seth vidal 2010-04-26 19:39:05 UTC 
over to langpacks.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 585424 ***