[Yum] yum grouplist

[seth vidal]

On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 20:18 -0700, Bob Kashani wrote:
> I just came across something:
> 
> [medieval at chaucer ~]$ yum grouplist
> Setting up Group Process
> Setting up repositories
> Error: Caching enabled but no local cache
> of //var/cache/yum/base/comps.xml from base
> 
> It seems that if you run yum as a non-root user then yum runs from cache
> and hence it cannot grab the comps.xml file. That's fine since it needs
> access to write to /var/cache/yum, but shouldn't there be an error
> message stating that you need to be root like there is when you try to
> update/install/remove?

no - b/c ultimately you don't need to be root - you really just need to
be able to write to certain directories or have that cache already
populated.

but in the case of update/install/remove you actually have to be root.


> Also, I noticed that there is no mention of the 'hidden' option to
> 'list' in the man page.

you mean to grouplist?

well that's b/c it is hidden!

haahahahahah, okay so that wasn't funny. Thanks. It'll be checked into
cvs as soon as I get off this plane.

-sv