FYI,
[cc'ing the yum list, because yum may want to make the permissions
of certain files it creates be independent of root's umask ]
When I do things as root, I have umask set to 077.
That appears to have led yum to set the permissions on all files in
/var/lib/yum/rpmdb-indexes/ to -rw-------.
That in turn makes commands run by non-root like "yum info libvirt" fail,
and it also makes libguestfs' build process fail like this:
febootstrap: external python program failed, see earlier error messages
The previous error it's referring to appears to be this:
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '//var/lib/yum/rpmdb-indexes/version'
I've just run this command (as root),
chmod go+r /var/lib/yum/rpmdb-indexes/*
the libguestfs build was finally able to complete.
And "yum info ..." became usable again.
This is on Fedora 15.
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