On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 20:18 -0700, Bob Kashani wrote: > I just came across something: > > [medieval@chaucer ~]$ yum grouplist > Setting up Group Process > Setting up repositories > Error: Caching enabled but no local cache > of //var/cache/yum/base/comps.xml from base > > It seems that if you run yum as a non-root user then yum runs from cache > and hence it cannot grab the comps.xml file. That's fine since it needs > access to write to /var/cache/yum, but shouldn't there be an error > message stating that you need to be root like there is when you try to > update/install/remove? no - b/c ultimately you don't need to be root - you really just need to be able to write to certain directories or have that cache already populated. but in the case of update/install/remove you actually have to be root. > Also, I noticed that there is no mention of the 'hidden' option to > 'list' in the man page. you mean to grouplist? well that's b/c it is hidden! haahahahahah, okay so that wasn't funny. Thanks. It'll be checked into cvs as soon as I get off this plane. -sv
