yum update induces instability

[Jim Jagielski]

R. Hirschfeld wrote:
> 
> I do "yum update" periodically to keep the system up-to-date, but the
> recent report of instabilty introduced by an update gives me pause.
> If "yum update" breaks the system in some way and it's not clear which
> package is causing the problem, is there an easy way to recover the
> previous state, reverting the updated packages to the previous update
> (rather than the version on the CD)?  Is the information cached and
> logged by yum sufficient to reconstruct the previous state?
> 
> Has anybody else experienced problems with the latest update or was
> this an isolated incident?
> 

One problem is that it updates rpm such that Packages is now
a 'version 8' hash instead of version 7. At which point, yum
(and Python) freak out and are totally broken after that.

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