[Yum-devel] RHEL6.1 yum version is creating extra empty cache directories

[James Antill]

On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 13:57 -0300, rotru at br.ibm.com wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> I am testing Yum in RHEL 6.1 - Beta (yum-3.2.29-10.el6.noarch) and I
> am 
> seeing what I would guess be a bug.
> I have a plugin which adds repositories to Yum, and when I run yum,
> it 
> creates an empty directory for each repo
> in the current path with the name of the repo id. Similar when it
> creates 
> the cache dirs in /var/cache/yum.
> 
> Have anyone seem this ?
> 
> - I am adding the repos in the init hook, due to packagekit conflicts.
> - Cache dirs are created without problems.

 You are hitting the same problem as:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691283