* John Reiser [27/02/2012 22:50] :
OK, so both rpm and yum could do better: at the first mention of 'transaction',
then the documentation (manual page, ...) should specify "not ACID".
It would help if you filed a bug (preferably with a patch attached).
There is a database involved, and the word 'transaction' had
a decade
of precedence in the database world before rpm was written.
a) Databases have been around since the late-60s and rpm was written
in the early-90s.
b) I just did a quick poll around my office and the consensus is that
'transaction' does not imply 'ACID'.
Emmanuel