[Yum-devel] yum info --changelog gives error

seth vidal skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Thu May 17 12:32:48 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 08:26 -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
> This is what I get on a new install of FC7:
> 
> yum info --changelog glibc
> Loading "installonlyn" plugin
> Loading "changelog" plugin
> Loading "kernel-module" plugin
> Loading "merge-conf" plugin
> Loading "priorities" plugin
> Loading "allowdowngrade" plugin
> 
> 
> Caching enabled but no local cache of //var/cache/yum/development/other.xml.gz 
> from development
> 
> 1. What does this mean?
> 2. Can this error message be improved, maybe by adding instructions on what to 
> do?

you're running as non-root (caching mode, implicitly) and you don't have
a fully updated cache with the changelog information in it. So it is
complaining that it can't get the file it needs to return the data
you've requested - the changelog for glibc.

-sv





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