yum-complete-transaction in yum-utils

This morning I checked in the rest of the code for yum-complete-transactions. For people running yum versions 3.2.7 and above you can use it pretty much as-is.

If you ever have a transaction abort in the middle b/c the power went out, rpm or yum fell over, your system locked up, your ssh connection died or any of a myriad of reasons then this may save your ass.

Grab it out of git here.

It takes the transaction-journaling I talked about back in august and makes it simple to use.

Just run yum-complete-transaction and it will attempt to finish out any transactions that were aborted in the middle.

of course, report bugs where appropriate.

xmas/solstice/etc present shopping

I’ve been casting about a bit for things to get folks in my life for the holidays. I’ve bought some traditional presents (books, computer-y things, bike-stuff, etc) and I’ve also did some hunting and found some pretty good alternatives to more stuff.

Last night I purchased some oxfam unwrapped items for my family and I’ll also purchase a few of these good cards for a few people who I think would rather pick out their own charity rather than have me do it for them.

So all of the presents I send will be small but I think they’ll be cool, nevertheless.