[Yum] Using YUM as non-root user

[Michael Lasevich]

Thanks, I'll look into it. I am not a big Python guy, but maybe its time 
to learn :-)

Also, for some reason last few times I tried to send something to a 
mailing list it never made it through. I wanted to mention that there is 
an old bug in urlgrabber that is still there that prevents yum from 
working when baseurl has both authentication and a custom port enabled. 
Details are here: http://yum.baseurl.org/ticket/132. There is a patch 
attached that seems to work great. It would be nice if this was fixed in 
the main code. :-)

Thanks.

-Michael


Seth Vidal wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, Michael Lasevich wrote:
> 
>> Ok, this is an unusual use of yum, so please read the entire thing 
>> before replying that you have to be root.
>>
>> I have a set up where I use RPM as a non-privileged user to deliver 
>> custom non-os packages. This setup works great, but I have to manually 
>> deliver update and new RPMs to this setup. I am curious if I can make 
>> YUM run as a non-root user with all the yum files and configurations 
>> located in non-standard places and deliver these RPMs to this location 
>> automatically. Assume that underlying RPM works fine in this 
>> configuration (which, like I said, it does with a few command line 
>> params and a custom config file)
>>
> 
> The yum commandline will not work. I'm positive of that. You might be 
> able to make the python-api work with a little trickery. Give it a try.
> 
> -sv
>