1. I was able to create RPMs and use yum-arch to create a repository and use a local config file. I was happy. Now yum tells me I have to be root to even do a list. I don't want to be root. I gotta be root to even get a list? Is there any way around this? See machinations below... 2. Another thing I didn't expect was that I created the repository in a local work area. I got all sorts of cache errors like yum -c $YUM_CONFIG list all Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) Server: experimental Error - /home/kgallie/YUM/cache/yum/stable/header.info cannot be found Please ask your sysadmin to update the headers on this system. I finally gave in and copied the header.info from where I yum-arch'ed the repository to the cache directory. Why did I have to do that? What is supposed to populate the cache area? 3. Can anyone recommend a reference? The FAQ, the man pages and http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/ are not quite enough for me. Thank you >>> local config file [main] cachedir=/home/kgallie/YUM/cache/yum debuglevel=2 errorlevel=2 logfile=/home/kgallie/YUM/log/yum.log assumeyes=0 tolerant=1 pkgpolicy=newest exactarch=1 distroverpkg=redhat-release exclude=redhat-release autofs kernel kernel-smp kernel-unsupported kernel-smp-unsupported # we expire our metadata in 60 seconds since we deal with small # repositories and want to ensure that new data is always pulled down. metadata_expire=60 [stable] name=experimental baseurl=file:///home/kgallie/dev/RPMTEST/work/REPO/x86_64 enabled=1 >>> machinations from #1 yum -d 10 -c $YUM_CONFIG list all Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) Server: experimental CacheDir: /home/kgallie/YUM/cache/yum/stable Using cached header.info file headerinfofn: /home/kgallie/YUM/cache/yum/stable/header.info Finding updated packages Downloading needed headers Error deleting cachedb lockfile: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/lib/rpmdb/x86_64-redhat-linux/redhat//__db.001' localhdrpath= /home/kgallie/YUM/cache/yum/stable/headers/try_1-0-4.1-2.x86_64.hdr for try_1 x86_64 Cannot download file:///home/kgallie/dev/RPMTEST/work/REPO/x86_64/headers/try_1-0-4.1-2. x86_64.hdr in caching only mode or when running as non-root user. Deleting entry from Available packages localhdrpath= /home/kgallie/YUM/cache/yum/stable/headers/try_4-0-3.0-9.x86_64.hdr for try_4 x86_64 Cannot download file:///home/kgallie/dev/RPMTEST/work/REPO/x86_64/headers/try_4-0-3.0-9. x86_64.hdr in caching only mode or when running as non-root user. Deleting entry from Available packages localhdrpath= /home/kgallie/YUM/cache/yum/stable/headers/try_2-0-3.0-1.x86_64.hdr for try_2 x86_64 Cannot download file:///home/kgallie/dev/RPMTEST/work/REPO/x86_64/headers/try_2-0-3.0-1. x86_64.hdr in caching only mode or when running as non-root user. Deleting entry from Available packages localhdrpath= /home/kgallie/YUM/cache/yum/stable/headers/try_3-0-3.0-1.x86_64.hdr for try_3 x86_64 Cannot download file:///home/kgallie/dev/RPMTEST/work/REPO/x86_64/headers/try_3-0-3.0-1. x86_64.hdr in caching only mode or when running as non-root user. Deleting entry from Available packages nulist = 0 uplist = 0 newlist = 0 obsoleting = 0 obsoleted = 0 Looking in Available Packages: No Packages Available to List Looking in Installed Packages: Name Arch Version Repo ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum
