James Antill wrote:
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?
Hi James,
It was consistent in the sense that as I alternated between non-root and
root users, the command repeatedly gave the behaviour described above.
So check-update as root didn't right things. However, performing the
update seems to have solved this. (I did try a clean all but that
didn't help. If it happens again, I'll try makecache...)
Thanks
Phil
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