Bug 615559

Summary: -C as non-root should use system or per-user cache dir as appropriate
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Matt McCutchen <matt>
Component: yumAssignee: Fedora Packaging Toolset Team <packaging-team>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Matt McCutchen 2010-07-17 05:00:01 UTC
Description of problem:
I noticed that yum and yum-utils behave differently when run by a non-root user with -C: yum always uses the system cache dir (/var/cache/yum), while yum-utils always uses a per-user cache dir (/var/tmp/yum-$USER-XXXXXX).  I think the most useful behavior for all programs would be to use the per-user cache dir if it already exists, or otherwise the system cache dir.  This improved logic ought to be implemented in YumBase.setCacheDir so it doesn't have to be duplicated (potentially incorrectly) in each program.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
yum-3.2.27-4.fc13.noarch

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Temporarily move /var/cache/yum out of the way.
2. Run as non-root: yum makecache && yum -C list yum
3. Put /var/cache/yum back in place.
4. Delete any cache dir for the current user in /var/tmp.
5. Run: package-cleanup -C --orphans

Actual results:
Step 2: "Error: Cannot access repository dir /var/cache/yum/x86_64/13/fedora"
Step 5: "Error: Cannot access repository dir /var/tmp/yum-matt-NOMQh8/x86_64/13/fedora"

Expected results:
Step 2: Successful operation using per-user cache dir.
Step 5: Successful operation using system cache dir.

Comment 1 seth vidal 2010-07-20 13:58:03 UTC
I think this is just package-cleanup which is older and doing various things differently.

Comment 2 Matt McCutchen 2010-07-20 14:56:48 UTC
Nope:

$ yumdownloader -C filesystem
Loaded plugins: auto-update-debuginfo, presto, priorities, refresh-packagekit
[...]
Cannot access repository dir /var/tmp/yum-matt-Uikccl/x86_64/13/fedora

$ repoquery -C -qi yum-utils
Cannot access repository dir /var/tmp/yum-matt-7NfzSg/x86_64/13/fedora

In any case, I'm proposing that logic better than what either yum or yum-utils currently does be implemented in YumBase.setCacheDir so that all the programs can benefit without duplicating code.  That's why I filed the bug against yum, although the yum-utils programs will also need changes to defer to YumBase.setCacheDir rather than checking the -C options themselves.

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Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2011-06-29 13:23:30 UTC
Fedora 13 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2011-06-25. Fedora 13 is 
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Comment 5 Matt McCutchen 2011-09-02 17:01:52 UTC
Nothing has changed in yum-3.2.29-9.fc15.noarch.

Comment 6 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2012-04-27 15:42:07 UTC
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.

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