On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 05:05:25PM +0100, Terry Barnaby wrote: > Is it possible to use yum to download a set of RPM's into a directory as > a normal user ? > Cannot download > file:///dist/fedora_2/updates/i386/headers/kernel-smp-0-2.6.7-1.494.2.2.i586.hdr in > caching only mode or when running as non-root user. Personally, I would call this a bug. A check was put in yum a while back so that people weren't confused by permission-denied errors. If you're not running as root, yum dumps you into caching-only mode under the assumption that you can't write to the cache dir. In this case, that assumption is incorrect. To fix this, that checking code will need to be made a bit smarter. You might see if it still exists in yum-HEAD and submit a patch. -Michael -- Michael D. Stenner mstenner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ECE Department, the University of Arizona 520-626-1619 1230 E. Speedway Blvd., Tucson, AZ 85721-0104 ECE 524G
