yum clean as $USER ?
Aioanei Rares
schaiba at gmail.com
Mon Nov 23 00:30:18 UTC 2009
On 11/23/2009 02:28 AM, Seth Vidal wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, Aioanei Rares wrote:
>
>> Perhapin the light of the recent thread regarding users' permissions
>> to install packages, I have a quick question : in Rawhide I typed
>> accidentally (eg without leading sudo) the command 'yum clean all' as
>> a simple user, and it worked. Is this intended, am I overlooking
>> something, or...?
>>
>
> that cleans out the local user cache for yum.
>
> yum in about 3.2.23 started making a user cache in
> /var/tmp/yum-$username-randomchars and using that for when a user
> wished to search/list/etc transactions.
>
> so now yum clean all, invoked as a user, cleans out that cache.
>
> -sv
>
Thanks, Seth, and sorry for the typo. :-)
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