[Yum] yum error messages

Raphael Clifford raphael at clifford.net
Fri Jan 23 13:59:51 UTC 2004


Hi,

Just a small thing but I was wondering if anyone was working on 
improving the error messages that yum gives out. For example, if you run 
"yum list updates" as non-root you get the screen filling up with 
hundreds of instances of things like

"  
Cannot download 
http://fedora.redhat.com/releases/fedora-core-1/headers/rusers-0-0.17-32.i386.hdr 
in caching only mode or when running as non-root user.
Deleting entry from Available packages
"


Wouldn't it be better to simply output one line such as "You need to be 
root to do that"?

Cheers,
Raphael
P.S.
yum --version
2.0.4
 on fedora FC1




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