On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, seth vidal wrote: > > Error moving headers to .oldheaders, fatal > > > yum-arch doesn't need to run as root, in fact, I almost never run it as > root. While discussing yum-arch, a very trivial point on the documentation. See the patch below, which says it all (and even adds the observation that you don't need to run yum-arch as root:-). The Usage in the tool itself should possibly be changed as well. rgb -- Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb@xxxxxxxxxxxx --- yum-arch.8 2003-08-28 09:33:26.000000000 -0400 +++ yum-arch-new.8 2003-08-28 10:06:59.000000000 -0400 @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ .SH "NAME" yum\-arch \- Creates yum distribution database .SH "SYNOPSIS" -\fByum\-arch\fP [options] directory +\fByum\-arch\fP [options] header_dir repository_dir .PP .SH "DESCRIPTION" \fByum\-arch\fP is run from the distribution site in order to create the @@ -27,8 +27,26 @@ .IP "\fB\-l\fP" pay attention to symlinks (Default is to ignore symlinks). .br -.IP "\fBdirectory\fP" -a directory where you want to create the \fIheaders\fP directory. +.IP "\fBheader_dir\fP" +is the \fIheaders\fP directory. It will be created in the toplevel +repository directory (next) if it does not already exist or updated if +it does. +.IP "\fBrepository_dir\fP" +is the actual repository directory. The RPMS to be yum-distributed can +be on any path within this directory - yum-arch will search the local +tree. + +.SH "EXAMPLES" +A example of the use of yum-arch with the defaults is as follows: + + # cd /path/to/repository + # yum-arch headers . + +It is neither necessary nor desirable to run yum-arch as root as long as +the user that runs it has permission to read the repository and write +the header files. +.fi +.PP .SH "FILES" .nf
