FIXED - did yum clean all and re-ran with expected results Re: yum list updates gives different results user vs root

[Darlene Wallach]

Richard,

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Darlene Wallach
>> <freepalestin at dslextreme.com> wrote:
>>> I'm still on Fedora 13. I have not installed Fedora 15 yet.
>>>
>>> I'm getting different results from "yum list updates" when I do it as
>>> user vs root:
>
> Generally you probably shouldn't run yum as a non-root (or admin)
> user. My experience is that non root users can't update the meta-data
> so it downloads it every time. If I'm just trying to list/search
> something then sometimes I use my normal login but I always run it
> with -C so it doesn't try to update the meta data.
>
> Richard

Thank you for the tip and explanation. I will follow that tip.

Darlene Wallach
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