[Yum] do I gotta be root?

[Gallie, Keith]

Ok, I resorted to downloading the source and figuring it out from there.

I changed the pid lockfile to a local file and conf.uid=0.

Wild question - will I run into any other issues? There weren't that
many checks for conf.uid == 0 so I figure after I go through those I'll
be in good shape, yes?

Thanks

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: yum-bounces at lists.dulug.duke.edu 
> [mailto:yum-bounces at lists.dulug.duke.edu] On Behalf Of Gallie, Keith
> Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 2:01 PM
> To: yum at lists.dulug.duke.edu
> Subject: [Yum] do I gotta be root?
> 
> 
> 1. I was able to create RPMs and use yum-arch to create a 
> repository and use a local config file. I was happy. Now yum 
> tells me I have to be root to even do a list. I don't want to 
> be root. I gotta be root to even get a list? Is there any way 
> around this? See machinations below...
> 
> 2. Another thing I didn't expect was that I created the 
> repository in a local work area. I got all sorts of cache errors like 
> 
> yum -c $YUM_CONFIG list all
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server: experimental
> Error - /home/kgallie/YUM/cache/yum/stable/header.info cannot 
> be found Please ask your sysadmin to update the headers on 
> this system.
> 
> I finally gave in and copied the header.info from where I 
> yum-arch'ed the repository to the cache directory. Why did I 
> have to do that? What is supposed to populate the cache area?
> 
> 3. Can anyone recommend a reference? The FAQ, the man pages 
> and http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/ are not quite enough for me.
> 
> 
> Thank you
> 
> >>> local config file
> 
> [main]
> cachedir=/home/kgallie/YUM/cache/yum
> debuglevel=2
> errorlevel=2
> logfile=/home/kgallie/YUM/log/yum.log
> assumeyes=0
> tolerant=1
> pkgpolicy=newest
> exactarch=1
> distroverpkg=redhat-release
> exclude=redhat-release autofs kernel kernel-smp 
> kernel-unsupported kernel-smp-unsupported
> 
> # we expire our metadata in 60 seconds since we deal with 
> small # repositories and want to ensure that new data is 
> always pulled down.
> metadata_expire=60
> 
> [stable]
> name=experimental
> baseurl=file:///home/kgallie/dev/RPMTEST/work/REPO/x86_64
> enabled=1
> 
> 
> >>> machinations from #1
> 
> yum -d 10 -c $YUM_CONFIG list all
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server: experimental
> CacheDir: /home/kgallie/YUM/cache/yum/stable
> Using cached header.info file
> headerinfofn: /home/kgallie/YUM/cache/yum/stable/header.info
> Finding updated packages
> Downloading needed headers
> Error deleting cachedb lockfile: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
> '/usr/lib/rpmdb/x86_64-redhat-linux/redhat//__db.001'
> localhdrpath=
> /home/kgallie/YUM/cache/yum/stable/headers/try_1-0-4.1-2.x86_6
> 4.hdr for
> try_1 x86_64
> Cannot download
> file:///home/kgallie/dev/RPMTEST/work/REPO/x86_64/headers/try_
> 1-0-4.1-2.
> x86_64.hdr in caching only mode or when running as non-root user.
> Deleting entry from Available packages
> localhdrpath=
> /home/kgallie/YUM/cache/yum/stable/headers/try_4-0-3.0-9.x86_6
> 4.hdr for
> try_4 x86_64
> Cannot download
> file:///home/kgallie/dev/RPMTEST/work/REPO/x86_64/headers/try_
> 4-0-3.0-9.
> x86_64.hdr in caching only mode or when running as non-root user.
> Deleting entry from Available packages
> localhdrpath=
> /home/kgallie/YUM/cache/yum/stable/headers/try_2-0-3.0-1.x86_6
> 4.hdr for
> try_2 x86_64
> Cannot download
> file:///home/kgallie/dev/RPMTEST/work/REPO/x86_64/headers/try_
> 2-0-3.0-1.
> x86_64.hdr in caching only mode or when running as non-root user.
> Deleting entry from Available packages
> localhdrpath=
> /home/kgallie/YUM/cache/yum/stable/headers/try_3-0-3.0-1.x86_6
> 4.hdr for
> try_3 x86_64
> Cannot download
> file:///home/kgallie/dev/RPMTEST/work/REPO/x86_64/headers/try_
> 3-0-3.0-1.
> x86_64.hdr in caching only mode or when running as non-root user.
> Deleting entry from Available packages
> nulist = 0
> uplist = 0
> newlist = 0
> obsoleting = 0
> obsoleted = 0
> Looking in Available Packages:
> No Packages Available to List
> Looking in Installed Packages:
> Name                                Arch   Version            
>       Repo
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