[Yum] root permissions for check-update?

[James Antill]

Phil Clayton <phil.clayton at lineone.net> 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?

-- 
James Antill -- james at and.org