Yum Scm

I used git bisect to track down a bug in yum last night. It was so easy and practical that I figured I should record it here, so that others might want to give git a try. I was attempting to install mutt, and yum failed (printing a traceback) after the rpms had been downloaded, but before the test transaction finished. So I started git bisect, and marked the current point as bad: $> git bisect start $> git bisect bad The yum 3.1.0 release didn’t have this bug (it was the version I had installed at the time), so I marked it as good: $> git bisect good yum-3-1-0 Bisecting: 15 revisions left to test after this [1d0454af41ef6361604cafa8c7a13d80bc183c63] make it so that we see that the local rpm is present and then don't download Git automatically checks out the next revision for you to test. »