From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051211 Fedora/1.5-1.1 Firefox/1.5 Description of problem: When running 'yum update' today, I noticed that during kernel-devel package update it renamed inittab and adjtime to .rpmsave files. Then the initscripts was removed and then updated but these files were not put back. Not sure what would happen if I rebooted but I think I know what would happen (boot failure). Note : There is currently a break in yum so I did a partial update (yum update "i*" "k*" "s*"): Here is a dump of yum output: Running Transaction Updating : system-config-date ####################### [ 1/12] Installing: kernel-devel ####################### [ 2/12] warning: /etc/inittab saved as /etc/inittab.rpmsave warning: /etc/adjtime saved as /etc/adjtime.rpmsave Removing : initscripts ####################### [ 3/12] Updating : selinux-policy-targeted ####################### [ 4/12] Updating : sysklogd ####################### [ 5/12] Updating : initscripts ####################### [ 6/12] fgrep: /etc/inittab: No such file or directory Installing: kernel ####################### [ 7/12] Cleanup : kernel ####################### [ 8/12] Cleanup : selinux-policy-targeted ####################### [ 9/12] Cleanup : sysklogd ####################### [10/12] Cleanup : kernel-devel ####################### [11/12] Cleanup : system-config-date ####################### [12/12] Removed: kernel.i686 0:2.6.14-1.1765_FC5 kernel-devel.i686 0:2.6.14-1.1765_FC5 Installed: kernel.i686 0:2.6.14-1.1767_FC5 kernel-devel.i686 0:2.6.14-1.1767_FC5 Updated: initscripts.i386 0:8.19-1 selinux-policy-targeted.noarch 0:2.1.6-4 sysklogd.i386 0:1.4.1-34 system-config-date.noarch 0:1.7.99.11-1 Complete! Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): initscripts-8.19-1 How reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1.yum update 2. 3. Actual Results: /etc/inittab and adjtime renamed to .rpmsave and no new files to replace them. Expected Results: Create new files or leave old ones there. Additional info:
This is a yum issue - it should not be running remove before install.
Yum is using rpm's ordering mechanism, not its own. You'll note in the transaction output it lists update and installs first and cleanups last. cleanups == removal.
whoops - I missed the removal of initscripts in the output. Still - yum is just using ts.order() for the ordering. Paul? Anything change in transaction ordering?
No I haven't changed yum's ordering code.
These bugs are being closed since a large number of updates have been released after the FC5 test1 and test2 releases. Kindly update your system by running yum update as root user or try out the third and final test version of FC5 being released in a short while and verify if the bugs are still present on the system .Reopen or file new bug reports as appropriate after confirming the presence of this issue. Thanks