Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (84 mails)

[Klaus Kaempf <kkaempf@xxxxxxx>]

* Michael Andres <ma@xxxxxxx> [Jul 31. 2008 18:17]:
> On Thu, Jul 31, Klaus Kaempf wrote:
>
> > Well, I believe you can. After the 'rpm -e', zypper (resp. libzypp)
> > will not that the rpm database is not in sync with @system.solv and
> > log the differences.
>
> But whatever we do, it's guessing unless rpm itself provides a 
> reliable history. In that case any commit could simply grep the 
> last entry, and later check if something happened thereafter.
>
> What if zypp dies or is aborted by user, in or after commit, before 
> re-rebuilding the @system.solv.
>
> The changes are already logged in the history, but not reflected by 
> the solv file. We would re-log them as foreign. 

The log could get 'start' and 'end' markers for each libzypp
transaction, then 'zypp crashing' should be detectable.

Otoh, I haven't seen zypp crashing for a very long time ;-)

Klaus
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