Bug 691879

Summary: [RHEL 6.1 BETA] yum creating and leaving cache directory structure in cwd of execution
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Travis Gummels <tgummels>
Component: yumAssignee: James Antill <james.antill>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Red Hat Satellite QA List <satqe-list>
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Version: 6.1   
Target Milestone: rc   
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Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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Description Travis Gummels 2011-03-29 18:56:03 UTC 
Description of problem:

yum is creating and leaving a cache directory structure in the current working directory in which the program is executed.

[root@monkee testing]# pwd
/root/testing
[root@monkee testing]# ls
[root@monkee testing]# yum update

......
[root@monkee testing]# ls
rhel-x86_64-server-6
rhel-x86_64-server-6-beta
rhel-x86_64-server-6-beta-debuginfo
rhel-x86_64-server-6-debuginfo
rhel-x86_64-server-fastrack-6
rhel-x86_64-server-fastrack-6-debuginfo
rhel-x86_64-server-optional-6
rhel-x86_64-server-optional-6-beta
rhel-x86_64-server-optional-6-beta-debuginfo
rhel-x86_64-server-optional-6-debuginfo
rhel-x86_64-server-optional-fastrack-6
rhel-x86_64-server-optional-fastrack-6-debuginfo
rhel-x86_64-server-supplementary-6
rhel-x86_64-server-supplementary-6-beta
rhel-x86_64-server-supplementary-6-beta-debuginfo
rhel-x86_64-server-supplementary-6-debuginfo

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

[root@monkee testing]# rpm -q yum
yum-3.2.29-7.el6.noarch

How reproducible:

On 6.1 BETA perform the same steps as noted above.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install 6.1 Beta
2. Create an empty dir
3. CD to empty dir
4. yum update
5. empty dir no longer empty

Actual results:

yum throws a party and doesn't clean up afterwards.

Expected results:

yum throws a party and there is no evidence of said party.

Additional info:
Comment 1 James Antill 2011-03-29 19:26:57 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 691283 ***