graceful recovery from interrupted yum update

[kyuso]

What is the best way to recover from interrupted yum update?

fglrx crashing X (it's another story why I coudn't use console to update) caused yum update to not fully finish.

Now I see that several packages have both old and new versions ('rpm -qa | sort'). Running 'yum update' again works from where it got interrupted, but doesn't clean up the packages it had been updating before it was interrupted.

Should I manually remove old packages one by one by hand? Is there a simpler way to do that instead?

[marko]

Should I manually remove old packages one by one by hand? Is there a simpler way to do that instead?

yum clean all

[kyuso]

I thought 'yum clean' only clean the rpm cache, not the actual installed packages.

Since I'm not familiar with the details of rpm, I may be incorrect, but the old packages seem to take up space, after 'yum update' is interrupted. And they don't seem to be related to rpm cache being cleaned.

Please advise.

[marcrblevins]

Start your teminal:

yum clean all
yum makecache
rpm --rebuilddb
yum update

Does this work?

[kyuso]

I now find that Fedora 14 has yum-complete-transaction and package-cleanup commands for this purpose. Great tools!

[DBelton]

actually, yum should have refused to run again when you tried, and told you to run yum-complete-transaction to finish the previous transaction.

Have they changed the way that yum works in this respect now?