Bug 623553

Summary: reinstall gets confused when run twice on one package
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Miroslav Vadkerti <mvadkert>
Component: yumAssignee: James Antill <james.antill>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Karel Srot <ksrot>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: 6.0CC: ffesti, james.antill, ksrot, maxamillion, mvadkert, pmatilai, tim.lauridsen
Target Milestone: rc   
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: yum-3.2.29-1.el6 Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Cause: yum reinstall code didn't look at what was already happening in the transaction Consequence: yum would get into a confused state if you tried to reinstall a package twice Fix: Look at transaction state, and act appropriately Result: second reinstall action is a noop.
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Clone Of: 622913 Environment:
Last Closed: 2011-05-19 13:33:37 UTC Type: ---
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Comment 6 James Antill 2011-05-12 19:13:02 UTC
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Cause: yum reinstall code didn't look at what was already happening in the transaction
Consequence: yum would get into a confused state if you tried to reinstall a package twice
Fix: Look at transaction state, and act appropriately
Result: second reinstall action is a noop.

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2011-05-19 13:33:37 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-0602.html