Gallie, Keith wrote: > Ok, I resorted to downloading the source and figuring it out from there. > > I changed the pid lockfile to a local file and conf.uid=0. > > Wild question - will I run into any other issues? There weren't that > many checks for conf.uid == 0 so I figure after I go through those I'll > be in good shape, yes? > > What version of yum and which distro are you running, exactly? Seems like you're using a really OLD version of yum. yum >= 2.4.3 allows "yum list" as non-root. It also uses repositories created by createrepo, not yum-arch. Regards, Fajar > Thanks > > > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: yum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> [mailto:yum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gallie, Keith >> Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 2:01 PM >> To: yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> Subject: do I gotta be root? >> >> >> 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. >> >> _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum
