Richard, On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Darlene Wallach >> <freepalestin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> I'm still on Fedora 13. I have not installed Fedora 15 yet. >>> >>> I'm getting different results from "yum list updates" when I do it as >>> user vs root: > > Generally you probably shouldn't run yum as a non-root (or admin) > user. My experience is that non root users can't update the meta-data > so it downloads it every time. If I'm just trying to list/search > something then sometimes I use my normal login but I always run it > with -C so it doesn't try to update the meta data. > > Richard Thank you for the tip and explanation. I will follow that tip. Darlene Wallach -- equal justice under law -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
