[Yum] root permissions for check-update?

[Phil Clayton]

James Antill wrote:
> 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?

Hi James,

It was consistent in the sense that as I alternated between non-root and 
root users, the command repeatedly gave the behaviour described above. 
So check-update as root didn't right things.  However, performing the 
update seems to have solved this.  (I did try a clean all but that 
didn't help.  If it happens again, I'll try makecache...)

Thanks
Phil