Phil Clayton <phil.clayton@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Hi, > > Under yum-3.2.27-2.fc12, I find > > yum check-update > > correctly reports available updates when run as a non-root > user. However, with yum-3.2.28-5.fc14 on another machine, the above > command returns no packages when run as a non-root user and returns 0, > i.e. no packages available. It produces the expected result only when > run as root. Should check-update be run as root now? > > (If check-update should be run as root, perhaps it should say so to > non-root users and return 1? For non-root users, it currently looks > like there are never any updates available! That had me confused for > a while...) > > Alternatively, have I done something stupid to make this happen...? It should work the same, for root and non-root. However because the user can't write to root's cache, sometimes the caches will be out of sync. Is that the problem ... or is this happening consistently? -- James Antill -- james@xxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum
